Friday, December 4, 2015

Re: programmatically determine blockwise visual mode

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi,
> let's say I have script, that wants to work on the last visually
> selected region, e.g. highlight it.
>
> Is there any way, to find out, whether the last block-wise selected
> region used '$' for selection (see :h v_$) or not? This matters, since
> when using the '$' in visual block mode, all lines up to the end will be
> selected, while when simply using the cursor to select the end point,
> only up to the column specified in the last line will be acted on.
>
I have a solution of sorts; please try the attached file with its
IsRaggedRight() function.

Potential Improvement: test all lines in the range instead of just the
first and last

Caveat: if the user has selected lines that are of equal lengths, then
IsRaggedRight() will return 0 (even though $ was not used).

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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