RE: Visual Mode Selection in Windows 7

 

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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:39:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Visual Mode Selection in Windows 7
From: dfishburn.vim@gmail.com
To: vim_use@googlegroups.com

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Roy Fulbright <rfulbrig@hotmail.com> wrote:

I am using gvim 7.3 on Windows 7. I need to select the four x's in the following sample text. I positioned the cursor on the upper left 'x', then typed 'v' to enter visual mode. So far so good, but when I move the cursor to the lower right 'x' I lose the selection. How do I designate the selection area in visual mode?
 
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abcd01
efxx02
ijxx03
mnop04

Do you want xx02ijxx yanked or do you want only xxxx?

Try this:

Do want you are currently doing, then hit y to yank.

:echo @"

To see what you just yanked.

You can also try CTRL-v (or CTRL-q on windows depending on what files you have source) to use BLOCK visual mode and do the same thing.

David

In my OP I stated that I want to select the 4 x's. I want to select what is shown below:

 

xx

xx

 

That's why I am trying to use visual mode to select the 4 x's as a block.

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