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I've been using Vim for almost 4 years now and I haven't got it right yet. I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from somewhere to somewhere else. I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v (shift + v); this will highlight the line; then press down arrow until I have selected the whole block. So far so good. Then I press 'y'. If then I move the cursor down, it will still continue to highlight the following text, which is not what I want. As a workaround, after selecting text, I press 'd', then 'p' to but it back where it was and then move down and press 'p' again. I wonder why it will keep on selecting text after pressing 'y'. I'm missing something obvious here. My .vimrc. $ cat .vim/vimrc source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim "set shellcmdflag=-ic set dir=~/.vim/tmp set expandtab set autoindent set mouse=r digraph bl 8226 " Insert Bullet with <CTRL>+k bl iabbrev cwd <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m %H:%M") iabbrev mydate <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y") iabbrev mydate2 <C-R>=strftime("%Y%m%d") map <f5> :1m$<cr> -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAEJNuHy8zJ8-kUiaYXKwW5%3D1Q06hzeor4Gu299VS-WW1nP26eQ%40mail.gmail.com.