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

On 2014-12-28 20:59, Mathias Rav wrote:
> 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.

Additionally, instead of using visual mode right-out, you can drop a
mark at the two ends (such as 'a and 'b) and then scroll between them
to your heart's content. Once verified, you can

v`ao`b

(or use V/^V if you want line/block selection) and operate on the
resulting selection that you've verified.

-tkc



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