Visual selection

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Tip 1584 Previous Next created February 16, 2008 · complexity basic · author Metacosm · version 7.0

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 TO DO 

• Make this a simple introduction to visual selection.
• Move some of content of following to here (with a link to here):
  • 312 Copy, cut and paste
  • 344 Cut or copy lines without counting the lines
  • 386 Cut/copy and paste using visual selection

[edit] Reselect a visual block

Did you just do something on a visual range, and to your horror the visual block vanished?

Just type gv to reselect the last block.

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