1 Reply by dracan

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Re: Visual Blocks

In Vim when you create a visual block, and choose an option - ie. 'y', '<', '>', etc - then the visual block is left intact.   However in viemu, any of these commands removes the visual block.

Is there any way to stop the visual block from being removed?

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Dan.

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Re: Visual Blocks

Dan,

At least in my vim, which is what I took as a reference when implementing ViEmu, the visual selection is removed and you go back to normal mode. Maybe there's a setting that controls that?

You can always use 'gv' to go back to the last visual mode, and you can even apply the following mappings to do it every time:

  :vnoremap y ygv
  :vnoremap > >gv
  :vnoremap < <gv

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  -- Jon

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Re: Visual Blocks

Ah, indeed you're correct.  I've been using the same _vimrc for years now, so had forgotten that I had to do that.  Now working as I want it in ViEmu too :-)

Excellent plugin btw!!!

Cheers,
Dan.

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Re: Visual Blocks

Thanks for the kind comment! Glad to help out.

Since I analyzed vim "by inspection" (and reading the :help text, but this is less than complete in many cases), I have found things in the past that I overlooked (like ViEmu emulating vim's :set selection=exclusive mode, default on my windows installation, but where vim usually defaults to 'inclusive'), I thought this might be another case.

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  -- Jon