Select across pages in Vim?

Question

Is there a way to visual select multiple pages in Vim?

When I press SHIFTV to enter selection mode, the keys h, j, k and l work to select more text, but page up and page down CTRLF and CTRLB exit out of the "select" mode.

FYI I am using GVIM on Windows 7.

Answer 1

You can:

• use Ctrld and Ctrlu, which keeps a selection under mswin and moves half a page
• put behave xterm into your vimrc file, which makes Ctrlf and Ctrlb work as well
• use searching with / as described in post of Zsolt

Answer 2

Even better, you can use / to search for something after SHIFTv and your lines will be selected till (and including) the next match.

It can be better, as you sometimes don't know what's on the next page.