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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:46:14 -0500
From: Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: deselect select area
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On 03/15/12 10:48, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:15, Tim
> Chase<v...@tim.thechases.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/15/12 08:43, shawn wilson wrote:
>>> often, i want to indent every line except two or three
>>> lines somewhere in the middle of the selection.
>>
>> :'<,'>v/pattern_to_find_lines_to_ignore/sil!>
>
> thanks, that works (not as good as what i was hoping - a key
> to press to stop select and then re-enable select but it's
> better than my alternative :) ).

It's actually better than disjoint-selection for many of my 
use-cases.  I can just make up patterns (as there's usually some 
textual commonality between the lines I want to skip/find) and 
Vim does the work for me.  With disjoint selections, I would have 
to mark each one manually--sometimes this is a couple hundred 
sections in my use-cases.  :-)

-tim