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I am fairly new to vim. I am trying to practice (been reading a couple of tutorials lately) but I found out I couldn’t live without highlighting characters/words/lines for Copy-paste.
In Textmate, I usually SHIFT+CTRL+LeftArrowKey to highlight words and then Copy.
How do I do that in VIM?
NOTE: I have NERDTree plugin installed and mapped some keys for my own consumption.
Give a look to the Vim Visual Mode.
The Shift+Ctrl+LeftArrowKey for word highlighting can be replaced easily for vw or vb.
Highlighting lines :
V to enter in Visual Line mode, then you can move with j,k, Ctrl-U, Ctrl-D, etc…
The Visual Mode is very powerful and useful.
Also, give a look to my answer to this question.