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Updated on June 14th, 2022 in #vim

Reselect Your Last Selection in Vim with gv

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This is handy in case you forgot to copy something or decide you want to select a few more lines.

Quick Jump: Demo Video

This behavior is built into Vim. After making your selection you can move around your file and hit gv to jump back and select what you had previously.

Demo Video

Timestamps

  • 0:09 – Reselecting the last selection using gv
  • 0:36 – I use this a lot to reselect HTML snippets

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