Visual Mode

En Masse (GitHub: Wolfy87/vim-enmasse) by Oliver Caldwell is for those of you who like to work with the quickfix list. Given a quickfix list, :EnMasse will open a new buffer that contains each of the lines. You can edit these…

mlessnau_block_shift is a small but well-formed plugin for selecting blocks of text and shifting the block up or down.

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vim-expand-region

vim-expand-region (GitHub: terryma / vim-expand-region, License: MIT) by Terry Ma allows visual selections…

I often find myself using Visual mode purely to figure out the best motion to use for a given task. For example, let’s say I’m trying to duplicate the following function’s body:

function specialAdd(a, b) {
  if (!a || !b) {…

Last week I wrote about the virtues of Visual mode in Vim 101: Visual Mode. This is the gateway to an entire class of powerful text manipulation techniques. One aspect that I find myself using regularly in my daily coding chores is blockwise Visual mode.