visual select in Co mode ?

[M Kelly]

Hi,

My visual selection works great in normal, visual and insert modes, but when I enter command mode via a '/' or ':' then I can no longer select with the mouse the same way.

It seems as tho I am using x selection (ie like shift+mouse) instead of visual selection.

I tried changing imaps to lmaps but no difference.

Is this expected / the way it must be ?

thx,

-m

[M Kelly]

Hi,

What colour would the highlighting be when in command-mode ?
It is not the same as hi Visual setting.

thx,

-m

[M Kelly]

Hi,

To be clear I do not mean the colour of highlighing anything in the command-line.

I mean highlighing other text above the command-line.

Like for example if you were to enter command-mode with a '/' and then use the mouse to highlight some text above to then paste in the command-line.

thx,

-m

[Tony Mechelynck]

In command-line mode you can only use modeless selection: indeed at
that time the active cursor is not in any edit window. It works even
in gvim.

See
:help modeless-selection
:help modeless-and-clipboard

Best regards,
Tony.

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[M Kelly]

Hi,

Thank you Tony.

-m

[M Kelly]

Hi,

I added:

set clipboard^=autoselectml guioptions+=A

and now I can drag/double click and paste to the command-line.

Would be cool if the highlight colour matched visual but no problem :-)

thanks again always for all your great info and help,

-m