> It's easy to make such mistake if selected text in Visual mode does
> not stand out and looks similar to Folded lines. Then you may not
> notice that you are in Visual mode. This is unfortunately a problem
> with many Vim color schemes, including the default one for GUI. They
> use the same or similar background color for selected text (Visual),
> folded lines (Folded), and current line/column (CursorLine,
> CursorColumn) highlight groups. I recommend setting background color
> for Visual selection to some bright, garish color that is different
> from all other highlightings. Something like CadetBlue2 or cyan. Then
> you will always know when you are in Visual mode. If you use default
> GUI colorscheme, try putting this in your .vimrc:
> hi Visual gui=NONE guifg=NONE guibg=CadetBlue2
The plugin Powerline <https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline> is
invaluable for identifying which mode you're in along with being able to
tell easily if a file's been modified & plenty of other Good Stuff.
As its name suggests it replaces & pimps your statusline.
Cheers,
Phil...
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back in time and shoot the author before he wrote it.
-Larry Wall
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