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How do I go to a column in vim?
Type a number followed by G (uppercase) to go to that line number. Example: 30G goes to line 30. Example: G goes to the last line of the buffer. Type a number followed by | (pipe) to go to that column in the current line.
How do I show columns in vi?
You can press Ctrl + G to temporarily display some useful information in the bottom left corner, including line- and column number of the cursor, the name of the file and more.
How do I change the cursor column in vim?
Simply putting :set cursorline in your vimrc will highlight the current line in every window and update the highlight as the cursor moves. With the default backslash leader key, typing \c will toggle highlighting on and off. That makes it easy to locate the cursor after scrolling in a large file.
How do you jump to a column?
Since Ctrl+G is the macro to open the Go To window, it is easy for me to remember Ctrl+Shift+G to run the macro to jump to a row or column. You can use any keyboard shortcut you want though. It does not have to be Ctrl+Shift+G for this to work.
How to get visually selected text in vimscript?
Yes, this seems like a pretty glaring omission. You should be able to fake it by finding the marks with getpos (), getting all the lines with getline (), then chopping off on the first and last according to the column position (with casework depending on whether or not it’s multi-line).
Is there a way to select text backwards in Vim?
It is possible to select text backwards in visual mode, which means ‘> comes before ‘< in the text. In those cases the two positions simply need to be reversed. While this isn’t in my version of the function, one could choose to reverse the string if the selection was backwards.
When is the variable ” reverse ” defined in Vim?
Assuming the variable “reverse” is defined when the marks are in reverse order: I once wrote a function that is able to do it without touching registers or cursor position: