Re: Ctrl-V block highlighting includes cursor column

Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com> writes:
>On 2015-02-13, Paul wrote:
>> h_east <h.east.727 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> Hi Paul. 2015/2/13(Fri) 5:40:27 UTC+9 Paul:
>>>> I use to press Ctrl-V and be able to scribe out a block of
>>>> highlighted text for deletion or yanking. It use to exclude the
>>>> cursor's column. Now it includes the cursor's column. I'm not
>>>> sure what settings I made to change this. What are the settings
>>>> that control whether Ctrl-V block highlighting includes the
>>>> cursor's column?
>>>
>>> Perhaps you're wanting the 'selection' option set to 'exclusive'.
>>>
>>> set selection=exclusive
>>
>> Thanks! I have no idea how it got set to non-exclusive. I did not
>> even know about the existence of this setting. Now that I do know,
>> however, I'll be on the lookout for what may have caused the
>> switch.
>
> If it acts up again, you can execute
>
> :verbose set selection?
>
> to find where it was set last.

Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Possibly you have or had a "behave mswin" or similar in your .vimrc.
> The :behave command touches the selection setting, among other
> things.

I did indeed have behave mswin set. Not sure why as I don't use those
ways of copy, cutting, or pasting in vim. However, even after
commenting it out and restarting vim, selection was still inclusive,
and it was "Last set from /usr/share/vim/vim74/autoload/netrw.vim".
Which I can't live without. So I guess I'll just set
selection=exclusive in _vimrc, and if that doesn't stick (e.g.,
overridden), I'll put it in an easily invokable function.

Thank you both.

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