What is a" supposed to do in visual mode?
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skeept
Jan 14, 2013, 3:49:51 PM1/14/13
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Hi I was reading some documentation and I came across
|v_aquote| a" extend highlighted area with a double
In my case I start visual mode and type a" but nothing seems to happen. Is this supposed to surround the visual selection with "?
I tried this with vim -u NONE --noplugins.
Regards,
Jorge
stosss
Jan 14, 2013, 3:55:01 PM1/14/13
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selection of everything between the quotes. See :help a"
stosss
Jan 14, 2013, 3:57:27 PM1/14/13
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quote and matching quote with all the text between them.
skeept
Jan 14, 2013, 4:06:21 PM1/14/13
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On Monday, January 14, 2013 3:57:27 PM UTC-5, Jack Gates wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, stosss wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, skeept < wrote:
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> >> Hi I was reading some documentation and I came across
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> >> |v_aquote| a" extend highlighted area with a double
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> >> In my case I start visual mode and type a" but nothing seems to happen. Is this supposed to surround the visual selection with "?
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> >> I tried this with vim -u NONE --noplugins.
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> > It works when your cursor is between quotes. It does a visual
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> > selection of everything between the quotes. See :help a"
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> Correction it works when the cursor is on a quote and selects the
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> quote and matching quote with all the text between them.
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, stosss wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, skeept < wrote:
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> >> Hi I was reading some documentation and I came across
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> >> |v_aquote| a" extend highlighted area with a double
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> >> In my case I start visual mode and type a" but nothing seems to happen. Is this supposed to surround the visual selection with "?
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> >> I tried this with vim -u NONE --noplugins.
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> > It works when your cursor is between quotes. It does a visual
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> > selection of everything between the quotes. See :help a"
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> Correction it works when the cursor is on a quote and selects the
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> quote and matching quote with all the text between them.
Thanks, that is obvious now.
Somehow I was reading extend as "add quotes around the visual selection"
Regards,
Jorge
stosss
Jan 14, 2013, 4:08:32 PM1/14/13
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Chris Schneider
Jan 14, 2013, 4:22:28 PM1/14/13
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I actually cover this about 2/3rds the way through my VimDrills screencast for this week (http://www.vimdrills.com/blog/drill-3-text-objects). Basically, while in visual mode, you can keep repeating text-objects to expand out your selected area.
So va" (visual all quote), then you can tack on a) (all paren) to expand outwards further.
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