Select Text (visual mode)
- Learning Copy command before, you should first learn how to select the code you want to copy.
- In vi To select text, need to use a visual command to switch to the visual mode .
- vi provides three kinds of visual modes .
- Press ESC can give selected to return to the command mode.
command | mode | Features |
v | Visual mode | Start select text from the cursor position in the normal mode |
V | Visual line mode | Select the cursor through the complete line Note: hjkl can not use! |
ctrl + v | Visual block mode | Vertical selected text |
Note:
Visual mode, the movement command can be used in conjunction, for example: ggVG able to select all content.