Question

I find myself often repeating the following pattern of operations.

I usually go into visual mode, select some lines or block. Then I yank them using y, and paste them using p or P. The next step is to select the pasted text, to replace a variable or function name or change indentation.

I know that I can use gvto reselect the “origin” but what I would like is a similar command to select the “destination”.

:help gv mentions :
After using "p" or "P" in Visual mode the text that was put will be selected.

but it is only useful when you are replacing a selection by the content of register, not when you are inserting a whole new block.

Answer 1

You are looking for

`[v`]

'[ and '] are marks automatically set by vim to the start and the end of the "previously changed or yanked text". v switches to visual mode in between.