Questions tagged [selection]

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Select everything between quotes over multiple lines

Is there a way to select everything between quotes " ' and where the text contained between these quotes span multiple lines? vi will select everything in between the quotes but it only works on a single line. Basically, I want…
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How to line-select a block within a back-ticked string

I've got the following code 1 const unrelated = 3; 2 3 const XYZ = styled.div` 4 display: inline-block; 5 position: absolute; 6 7 margin: auto; 8 `; 9 10 const unrelated2 = 6; With my cursor in line 6, how can I line-select lines 3 to 8?…
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How to vertically-block-select words of different length?

With other editors we can select vertical-blocks where each line has the same start column but not the same end-column. For example: print("", s.field1); print("", s.field_long); print("", s.f); Is there a way in Vim (with a plugin or not) to…
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Can you do a jagged visual selection or jagged yank?

given some text like sadf_blahbalh_sdf sadf_abc_zzz asdf_yx_sdf and I want to block select from the 'b' of blah down to the 'y' of yx and then, for every line extend the select to the _ using something like t_. But that will select till the _ on…
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How to multi select for the purpose of copy operation?

I can do a search to highlight multiple unrelated words that exist with: /word1\|word2\|word3 But this is only search, it is not "select" (for copy and paste operation) How to highlight multiple unrelated sentences ? As in web browser, I can…