Vim: how to select multiple words of different lengths spanning multiple lines in block selection mode?

Question

vim

Let's say I have this code:

var = "Hello"
long_name_var = "World"
variable = "!"

How can I highlight the variable names? I tried to do it like this <C-v>2je: But it didn't work out.

Answer 1

You can't do that with native Wim, but it seems you can with the multiple-cursors plugin. The original terryma/vim-multiple-cursors hasn't been updated for two years now as I see it now, you might want to use the kristijanhusak/vim-multiple-cursors fork .

Answer 2

There are other ways to achieve this functionality in vim. Cm.:help repeat.txt