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		kaneo on Sept 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim is hard, I just want to click around On Windows, ctrl+q will get you the Visual Block selection. EDIT: I think it also works on Linux... Sitting on my Windows box, at the moment, so I can't test it.

splicer on Sept 6, 2011 [–]

It does (both on Windows and Linux), but gVim still uses v and V for the other two Visual modes, rather than q and Q. It drives me nuts!

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