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.

Normally the col() function could do this, but it has code specifically
for this situation and drops the information.

We could add an optional argument to col() to return MAXCOL, but that
would be weird.

getpos() also can't do it, the "curswant" entry is only there for
getcurpos(). Adding getvispos() is weird too.

Still seems the extra argument to col() is the least worst solution.

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