Re: V selects past end of line. How to stop this?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Reckoner,
>
> A one character shorter solution is to use `0y$` but if what you really
> need is the visual mode then `g_` seems unavoidable.
>
> -Marcin

Note that g_ doesn't include any whitespace that might be at the end
of the line. If you want that space, you can use 0v$h.

>
> On 21:59 Thu 09 Jul , h_east wrote:
>> Hi Reckoner,
>>
>> 2015-7-10(Fri) 12:48:11 UTC+9 ZyX:
>> > 2015-07-10 5:36 GMT+03:00 Reckoner <reckoner@gmail.com>:
>> > > The normal 'V' command visually selects the line past the end of the line. I
>> > > want to select only to the end of the line, but *not* beyond that. I looked
>> > > at the 'selection' option but that does not help.
>> >
>> > V is a linewise selection. You *cannot* omit including the line break
>> > in linewise selection, its very purpose is to select the whole line.
>> >
>> > >
>> > > What am I missing here?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
>>
>> Probably you want to 'g_'.
>>
>> :h g_
>>
>> When following command typed in normal mode, Those of your hopes are character-wise visual selected.
>>
>> 0vg_
>>
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>> Hirohito Higashi (a.k.a. h_east)
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