How to use markers and perform text selection in Vim | Linux Today

How to use markers and perform text selection in Vim

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Himanshu Arora
Feb 28, 2017

When using GUI-based text/source code editors, some features are a given, such as selecting text. I mean, most of us won’t even consider this a feature anymore. But that’s not the case with command line based editors like Vim. Specifically for Vim, when only using keyboard, you’ll have to learn certain commands in order to select text the way you want. In this tutorial we will discuss this feature as well as the ‘marks’ feature of Vim in detail.

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Himanshu Arora

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