How to highlight text in vim text editor?

Question

vim

You need to be able to select text so that later you can cut it into a separate file. In sublime text, this is done by holding down the shift and ctrl buttons, but how in vim?

Answer 1

I'll try to summarize, I remember my panic when I opened vim for the first time
Option 1:
- Press v (vim switches to visual mode, selects everything from the current cursor position)
- move the cursor (you can use arrows, you can hjkl , you can use web%$ as you like)
- press y
Option 2:
If we are talking about strings, we need to solve this problem
- type :set relativenumber
- determine how many lines to copy by line numbering on the left ( let 's say 43 )
- press y43y There are many options and each d%#@, as he wants.

Answer 2

1) selection of a block of text occurs in selection mode, by pressing either v (character-by-character selection), or V (line-by-line), or Ctrl + v (block, a rectangular block is selected)
2) copy - either y (just copy to vim buffer), or "*y (copy to system clipboard) or "+y (also copy to system clipboard)
3) cut - d. Moreover, you can cut without prior selection, for example, dd will delete the current line, diw - the current word.
4) insert - p, or P
I recommend reading a book on vim

Answer 3

You need to stupidly read man, at least on the Internet

Answer 4

Google -> Vim visual mode