Overview and Quick-Reference of Vim's visual mode

Variants

Character based

Enter with v

Line based

Enter with V/shift + v

Area/Rectangle based

Enter with control + v

Actions

Delete

• d
• x

Change

Delete and change into insert mode

• c

Indent

• < indent backwards
• > indent forwards

Jump between start and end

Use o to toggle the cursor position between the start character of the selection and the end character of the selection.

Using o, we can quickly extend the selection on any end. We are not fixed to the starting point when entering visual mode.

Get last selection

Use gv inside normal mode to reenter visual mode with the last active selection.

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Sentence

vis

Paragraph

vip

Given chars

• vi'
• vi"
• vi(
• vi{
• vi[

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