Re: gvim visual mode selection changes as you scroll up and down, how to fix it?

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bao Niu <niubao56@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I select a long patch of code spanning several pages, I'd like to view how much I actually selected by scrolling up and down. However this will automatically 'ruins' what I have selected because it changes the anchor!
>
> How can I fix the two ends of what I have selected in visual mode? Many thanks.

You can press 'o' in visual mode to go to the other end of the
selected text -- see :help v_o.

You can also press g CTRL-G in visual mode to see how many
lines/words/bytes you have selected -- see :help v_g_CTRL-G.

Best,
Mathias Rav

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