When I pop into Vim’s visual mode to, for example, indent a block of text, the command prompt always starts with '<,'>. Can someone break down for me why this is or rather what it does? It seems like it’s got something to do with markers but I’m not entirely sure of this based on the manual stuff I’ve read so far.
When I pop into Vim’s visual mode to, for example, indent a block of
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'<is the first line visually selected, and'>is the last line visually selected. This is vim’s way of making your command apply to only the visual area.