Re: Save a selection

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:48:25 AM UTC-5, shawn wilson wrote:
>> My problem is that I often select a portion of code and do multiple
>>
>> :%s/foo/bar/g (or /gc - whatever) after, the code selection disappears
>>
>> and I need to select that area again if I want to replace something
>>
>> else. I can remember line numbers or put a mark at the end. Is there a
>>
>> way to save the selected area or a better way to do this?
>
> Everybody suggested gv to reselect the area, I'm surprised nobody mentioned that you don't NEED to reselect the visual area, nor do you need to manually set marks.
>

Well, it is what I asked for :)
And I definately appreciate that - it'll come in handy when I yank
something and realize I wanted more/less and the like to.

> Every time you create a visual selection, Vim automatically sets the '< and '> marks.
>

For some reason, I just didn't think that was stored. No idea why. Thanks.

> So to run several sequential commands on the same visual selection:
>
> {make visual selection}
> :'<,'>FirstCommand
> :'<,'>SecondCommand
> :'<,'>ThirdCommand
> :'<,'>Etc
>
> Note that for FirstCommand, as soon as you press :, the marks '<,'> are inserted for you by Vim. The others you can enter manually or use command-line history to recall a previous command you can edit.
>
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