Re: Vertical selection
Hi guys, I knew about the Ctrl-V with I command, but have never used it with A. So out of interest I just tried it, but it appends at the next point in front of the cursor, not at the end of the line, as I expected A to act, I guess this is because you are in some way taking the A command from visual mode Gerald Lai wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2006, John Love-Jensen wrote: Hi Eddine, Is it possible to make a vertical selection in a text, to have a rectangular selection in the text ? If so, how ? Yes, you are looking for the Visual mode blockwise. ^V to initiate Visual mode blockwise. Use movement keys to get to where you want the block to span. Use y (yank) or x (cut) to put the block into the register (as a block) Use p (put) to insert the register (as a block) into the buffer For more info... :help CTRL-V :help ' :help ' There are probably a zillion variants and tricks with Visual mode blockwise. I find that these simple ones suffice for all my needs. One more extremely useful thing to do in Visual Block mode is to hit I or A (capital) to insert/append the same text for all the lines that have been selected. -- Gerald -- Robert Cussons Office SB3 3.163, Theory Group Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI) Planckstraße 1 64291 Darmstadt Germany. Tel: +49 (0)6159 71 2754 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vertical selection
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:34:27AM +0200, Robert Cussons wrote: Hi guys, I knew about the Ctrl-V with I command, but have never used it with A. So out of interest I just tried it, but it appends at the next point in front of the cursor, not at the end of the line, as I expected A to act, I guess this is because you are in some way taking the A command from visual mode First, a slight correction: it appends after the Visual selection. If you start at the (upper or lower) left and move the cursor right (and down or up), then this is the same as appending after the cursor. It is different if you start the Visual selection at the right and move left. Second, if you want to append at the ends of the lines, use $ (end of line) while in Blockwise-Visual mode. HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: Vertical selection
Thanks for the tip Benji, just to make the difference between 'I' and 'A' in blockwise visual mode clear to anyone else who might be reading this and doesn't know, 'I' will always insert in the position immediately before the selected block, whilst 'A' will always insert in the position immediately after the selected block and as Benji said, pressing '$' followed by 'A' whilst in blockwise visual mode will insert at the end of each line. Sorry if no-one else cares:-) Benji Fisher wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:34:27AM +0200, Robert Cussons wrote: Hi guys, I knew about the Ctrl-V with I command, but have never used it with A. So out of interest I just tried it, but it appends at the next point in front of the cursor, not at the end of the line, as I expected A to act, I guess this is because you are in some way taking the A command from visual mode First, a slight correction: it appends after the Visual selection. If you start at the (upper or lower) left and move the cursor right (and down or up), then this is the same as appending after the cursor. It is different if you start the Visual selection at the right and move left. Second, if you want to append at the ends of the lines, use $ (end of line) while in Blockwise-Visual mode. HTH --Benji Fisher -- Robert Cussons Office SB3 3.163, Theory Group Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI) Planckstraße 1 64291 Darmstadt Germany. Tel: +49 (0)6159 71 2754 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Vertical selection
Robert Cussons wrote: ... as Benji said, pressing '$' followed by 'A' whilst in blockwise visual mode will insert at the end of each line. Sorry if no-one else cares:-) Well, I knew about I and A, but $A was news to me! Thanks. --Suresh
Re: Vertical selection
Hi, Baha-Eddine MOKADEM wrote: Is it possible to make a vertical selection in a text, to have a rectangular selection in the text ? If so, how ? :help ctrl-v Regards, Jürgen -- Jürgen Krämer Softwareentwicklung HABEL GmbH Co. KGmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hinteres Öschle 2 Tel: +49 / 74 61 / 93 53 - 15 78604 Rietheim-WeilheimFax: +49 / 74 61 / 93 53 - 99
Re: Vertical selection
On Thu, 18 May 2006, John Love-Jensen wrote: Hi Eddine, Is it possible to make a vertical selection in a text, to have a rectangular selection in the text ? If so, how ? Yes, you are looking for the Visual mode blockwise. ^V to initiate Visual mode blockwise. Use movement keys to get to where you want the block to span. Use y (yank) or x (cut) to put the block into the register (as a block) Use p (put) to insert the register (as a block) into the buffer For more info... :help CTRL-V :help ' :help ' There are probably a zillion variants and tricks with Visual mode blockwise. I find that these simple ones suffice for all my needs. One more extremely useful thing to do in Visual Block mode is to hit I or A (capital) to insert/append the same text for all the lines that have been selected. -- Gerald
Re: Vertical selection (fwd)
[I wasn't sure if Eddine sent this out to everybody, so I'm forwarding this to the list.] You're welcome, Eddine :) -- Gerald -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 22:20:24 +0200 From: Baha-Eddine MOKADEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerald Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vertical selection Once again, Victor, Gerald, Eljay and J?rgen thank for all of you !!! It's a real pleasure to get quick and precise responses. Thank you again. Eddine
Re: Vertical selection
Baha-Eddine MOKADEM wrote: Is it possible to make a vertical selection in a text, to have a rectangular selection in the text ? If so, how ? In addition to the ctrl-v answer: vis.vim, available at http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195 , allows one to apply any Ex command to a visual block selected region. Two common uses: sorting the contents of just the visual block and restricting a substitute to take place over just the visual block. Regards, Chip Campbell
