Re: Problem with Visual selection on an empty line

Hi glts!

On Di, 09 Apr 2013, glts wrote:

> When a "v" Visual selection ends on an empty line it will also delete
> the newline and join the next line. Is there a way to avoid this?
>
> Here's an example text with the cursor on b:
>
> abc
> d
> xyz
>
> Now pressing vj and then d results in:
>
> axyz
>
> I would not have expected line 3 joined to line 1 but I can see that
> it's because I also deleted the newline on line 2. Thus I can simply use
> h to exclude the newline. Same situation, pressing vjhd gives:
>
> a
> xyz
>
> But what if the line between abc and xyz is empty?
>
> abc
>
> xyz
>
> Now vjd will always result in:
>
> axyz
>
> But I don't like this, it goes against my intuition. Is there a way to
> tell Vim not to include the newline character in the Visual selection,
> so that I get the same result as with vjhd?

:set selection=exclusive

regards,
Christian
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-- Jean Paul

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