Re: Save a selection

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.

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

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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