How do I select text while scrolling?

How do I select text while scrolling?

To select text with the mouse, simply point at the text and drag across it. Double-clicking the left mouse button selects a whole word. Scrolling the window will only change the selection if the “Keep cursor in window when paging up and down” option is turned on in the Preferences: General dialog box.

How do I select and scroll down?

Now, use the scroll bar to scroll down in the text until you reach the end of the desired selection. Hold down the Shift key and click to select it all.

How do I select an entire text in Vim?

How To “Select All” In Vim/Vi?

1. Use ggVG To Select All. All content of a file can be selected by using the Visual Mode of Vim or Vi.
2. Use 99999yy To Select and Copy All.
3. Use $yy To Select and Copy All.
4. Select and Delete All Lines.
5. Select and Copy All Lines.
6. Select All In Gvim.

How do you select text quickly?

Hold down the “Ctrl” key and the “Shift” key. Press the right arrow key to select the word to the right, or press the left arrow key to select the word to the left. Select one character at a time by holding down the “Shift” key and and using either arrow key (right or left).

How do I select a lot of text?

Note: To select an entire document, press CTRL+A. Press SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW. Press SHIFT+LEFT ARROW. Place the insertion point at the beginning of the word, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW.

How do I select and copy text in Vim?

To cut-and-paste or copy-and-paste:

1. Position the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to cut/copy.
2. Press v to begin character-based visual selection, or V to select whole lines, or Ctrl-v or Ctrl-q to select a block.
3. Move the cursor to the end of the text to be cut/copied.

What is select mode in Vim?

Select-mode is commonly used in snippet plugins such as vim-snipmate. Mappings can be created that are unique to select-mode so as not to interfere with regular visual mode behaviour.

What is Ctrl F in vim?

Ctrl + f – move forward one full screen. Ctrl + d – move forward 1/2 a screen. Ctrl + u – move back 1/2 a screen.

Why can’t I scroll in vim?

Try doing :set mouse=a and then the scroll wheel ought to move you around vim. If you’d prefer the scroll wheel to send arrow keys without using mouse reporting, turn on “Prefs>Advanced>Scroll wheel sends arrow keys in alternate screen mode” and turn off “Prefs>Profiles>Terminal>Disable save/restore alternate screen”.

How can you select text without using the mouse?

Press the “Right-arrow” key while keeping the “Shift” key held down. Notice that each time that you press the “Right-arrow” key, a character is highlighted. If you want to highlight a large amount of text, simply hold down the “Right-arrow” key while pressing the “Shift” key.

What can you do with mouse in Vim?

Placing the cursor: Instead of having to use the arrow keys to move your cursor, you can now just click wherever you want it to be. Huge time saver. Scrolling: Yup, you can scroll with the mouse wheel now. No more hitting page down a hundred times in a giant file.

What’s the best way to select text in Vim?

Get out of insert mode, hit one of the options below, and then move up or down a few lines. You should see the selected text highlighted. After selecting the text, try d to delete, or y to copy, or :s/match/replace/, or :center, or !sort, or… Here’s one way to move selected text over a few spaces:

What happens when you click and drag on Vim?

This won’t work anymore. When you click and drag to highlight text, you’ll be put into Visual mode, an amazingly powerful part of Vim that many people never use. I highly recommend learning more about Visual mode, but if you want the original behavior you can hold shift while selecting text.

How does the arrow keys work in Vim?

This infinitely customizable text editor typically runs within a keyboard-only shell, and thus only lets you use the keyboard (unless you are running something like gVim). You use the arrow keys to move the cursor around and a slew of keyboard shortcuts to insert, move, delete, or otherwise manipulate the text.