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Re:Vim After 11 Years by rplnt on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @08:24AM (#5250257)
How do you select text then? I'm sure there are ways, but they are certainly not intuitive and I've never bothered to look them up since I don't do this task as often.
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Re:Vim After 11 Years by johncoltrane on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @12:39PM (#5251867)
Do you mean "select text from whatever is displayed in the terminal" or "select text in Vim"?

I never select or copy anything from the terminal: pbcopy on the Mac OS X and xclip on Linux are what I use to get stuff from the shell into the system clipboard.

I don't think that's what you ask, but in Vim, visual selection is done by hitting v (character-wise), V (line-wise) and Ctrl-v (block-wise) followed by a motion or a text-object: va{, vit and so on.

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Re:Vim After 11 Years by rplnt on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:50AM (#5256506)
Yes, I asked about terminal (this whole subthread was about mouse use in terminal). Thanks.
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