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- [Instructor] Vim has many great movement commands.

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However, sometimes you'd like to see

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what is the part of the text you're selecting.

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To do this, Vim has a visual mode.

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In this mode, you select lines

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and Vim will highlight them for you.

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Let's open light.txt.

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Vim light.txt.

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To enter visual mode use shift + v.

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You can see the status bar at the bottom

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changes to visual line.

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Shift + v selected one line.

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And now we can extend the selection

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using motion commands.

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For example, let's use j to select another line.

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Once you're happy with the selection

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you can decide what to do with it.

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Let's delete these two lines with d.

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Shift + v selects lines.

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You can also use control + v to select blocks.

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Let's undo with u.

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And now control + v.

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You can see the status bar below

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changing to visual block.

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Extend the block one column to the right, using l.

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And now four more lines using four + j.

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Once you've selected the block

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you can decide what to do.

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Let's delete the white space with d.

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Very handy.

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I don't know many developers who can do that.

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And other fun you can have with visual blocks

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is to change them.

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When you change, the whole block is changed.

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Let's undo with u.

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And we select again.

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Control + v + l + four + j.

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And now change.

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Changing is done with c.

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And then we'll write what we want it to replace.

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So let's do dash space.

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And now hit escape.

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All the lines are changed.

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I often use visual mode to select

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the exact part of the text I'd like to change.

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I hope you'll find it useful, as well.