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Vim: Visual Mode

Visual Mode is used for selecting blocks of text, which you can then manipulate with other commands.

Enable Visual Mode

CommandDescription
vEnter visual mode to select text character by character.
VEnter visual line mode to select whole lines.
Ctrl + vEnter visual block mode to select columns of text.

Visual Mode Editing

CommandDescription
xDelete selected text.
dDelete selected text.
yYank (copy) selected text.
pPaste the yanked or deleted text after the cursor.