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copied!<p>You are talking about text selecting and copying, I think that you should give a look to the <a href="http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/visual.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Vim Visual Mode</a>.</p> <p>In the visual mode, you are able to select text using Vim commands, then you can do whatever you want with the selection.</p> <p>Consider the following common scenarios:</p> <p>You need to select to the next matching parenthesis.</p> <p>You could do:</p> <ul> <li><strong><code>v%</code></strong> if the cursor is on the starting/ending parenthesis</li> <li><strong><code>vib</code></strong> if the cursor is inside the parenthesis block</li> </ul> <p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35146/stackoverflow/Vim/parens.gif" /></p> <p>You want to select text between quotes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>vi"</strong> for double quotes </li> <li><strong>vi'</strong> for single quotes</li> </ul> <p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35146/stackoverflow/Vim/quotes.gif" /></p> <p>You want to select a curly brace block (very common on C-style languages):</p> <ul> <li><strong><code>viB</code></strong></li> <li><strong><code>vi{</code></strong></li> </ul> <p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35146/stackoverflow/Vim/viB.gif" /></p> <p>You want to select the entire file:</p> <ul> <li><strong><code>ggVG</code></strong> </li> </ul> <p><a href="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/visual.html#CTRL-V" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Visual block selection</a> is another really useful feature, it allows you to select a rectangular area of text, you just have to press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>V</kbd> to start it, and then select the text block you want and perform any type of operation such as yank, delete, paste, edit, etc. It's great to edit <em>column oriented</em> text.</p> <p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35146/stackoverflow/Vim/blockselection.gif" /></p>

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