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I'm relatively new to the world of Vim. I've been learning my way around it but have yet to find a practical purpose to enter visual mode.
What are some scenarios when visual mode is especially useful?
Are there actions that can only be performed from within visual mode?
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Visual Block Mode of Vim allows us to perform different operations like delete, copy-paste, i.e., yanked and put, etc. To enable the Visual block mode in Vim, you have to try out the “Ctrl+V” command within the normal mode. You can see that the new. txt file has been opened in the Visual Block mode.
Vim is a useful text editor in Ubuntu 20.04 that is composed of multiple operating modes. This article will show you how to use Vim's visual mode, a powerful editing mode that can be used to highlight and edit the text within different files in a slick, convenient fashion.
Historically, Vi was designed as a visual mode for the Ex-line editor. The name “Vi” comes from the Ex command, visual , that is used to enter visual mode.
vim has two "modes": COMMAND mode and INSERT mode. In COMMAND mode, you execute commands (like undo, redo, find and replace, quit, etc.). In INSERT mode, you type text. There is a third mode, VISUAL mode, that is used to highlight and edit text in bulk.
I use visual mode when I want to highlight a section of text. I start by typing v in standard mode, which then enables the visual mode. Then I use the arrow keys to move the cursor. This causes the text between my starting point and the current cursor location to be highlighted. Once you select a section of text like this, entering a command (e.g. search/replace) in command mode (by typing :) will only affect the selected area.
Another useful visual command is shift+v (visual line). This does the same as above, but it selects entire lines at a time instead of individual characters.
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