created by

Hari Krishna Dara

script type

utility

description

This plugin extends the Vim's visual mode functionality by allowing you to select non-contiguous regions and execute commands on them. It makes it really easy to select multiple regions using mouse, as you can use Ctrl+Mouse combination just like in MS Word. There are a number of operations to very easily manipulate selections such as modifying the regions (add/delete/inverte/clear), hiding, refreshing, saving and restoring etc. You can execute both normal and :ex mode commands in one shot on all the regions. The selections are also local to the buffer, so you can have separate selectins for each buffer. Usage: Once installed, the features are available in all the buffers. To create selection regions you can use mouse or keyboard.     - To use mouse, hold Ctrl key and make a visual selection using the       LeftMouse button just like you normally do. Once the mouse button is       released, the selection gets automatically added as a new selection       region. If you are selecting only one line, you can release the mouse       button without having to drag.     - To use keyboard, make a visual selection using |visual-mode| commands or       mouse and press <Enter> to create a new region out of it. The <Enter> (or       <CR>) key is mapped only if it is not already mapped in visual mode. The       cursor is placed in the direction of the selection such that it is easier       to continue moving the cursor for making further selections.     - To clear part or the whole of a region from selection, repeat the       same exact procedure over that region. You can however mix mouse and       keyboard usage. The procedure is equivalent to running the |:MSInvert|       command as describe in |multiselect-commands|.     - Once you repeat the procedure to create all the regions that you need to       act on, use one of the |:MSExecCmd| or |:MSExecNormalCmd| (or one of their       equivalent maps) to execute commands on them. Ex:         - Delete all the lines in the current selections >             MSExecCmd d         - Convert all the characters in the current selections to upper case. >             MSExecNormalCmd gU     - Use |:MSClear| (or its map) to clear the selection. With the support of multiselect in other plugins, it becomes very useful. E.g., you can execute perfoce commands such as submitting files (using vimscript#240) on a group of selected files, using the multiselect support in selectbuf plugin (vimscript #107). It is possible to extend netrw plugin to support operations on multiple files too. Search_key_words: multiselect multiple selection select selections mouse hari_vim Hari Krishna Dara

install details

Requires:  genutils (vimscript#197) - Extract the zip archives in to your runtime directory (.vim or vimfiles   under your HOME directory). - Start a new instance or go to an existing instance of vim. - Execute:     :helpt <your runtime directory>/doc   This should generate the help tags for the selectbuf plugin help. - Type :help multiselect to read the help and finish configuration. For version older than 2.0, you need to download the non-autoload versions of genutils and multvals (vimscript#171) plugins.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
multiselect-2.2.zip	2.2	2006-09-11	7.0	Hari Krishna Dara	Changed public API to not autoload script. It doesn't make sense for public API to load the script if it is not already loaded. This will also cause problems when the plugin is disabled, but other plugins try to use it.
multiselect-2.0.zip	2.0	2006-09-03	7.0	Hari Krishna Dara	- All the functionality has been rewritten to take advantage of new Vim7   features such as Lists. The programmatic API is not backwards compatible. - The plugin is now autoloaded, so it will not be (auto)loaded until you execute   the first mapping/command. This will help improve the startup time of your Vim   session. - Misc. bug fixes have been fixed in the ares of |:MSInvert| and |:MSAdd|. - The g:multiselTmpMark is no longer required. The plugin now   uses getpos() and setpos() to avoid overwriting any user marks. - New setting |g:multiselQuickSelAdds|. - New commands |:MSMatchAddByDiffHlGroup| and |:MSVMatchAddByDiffHlGroup| to   select regions in a |vimdiff| window.
multiselect.vim	1.3	2005-03-17	6.0	Hari Krishna Dara	- New commands MSMatchAddBySynGroup and MSVMatchAddBySynGroup to select   lines automatically by their syntax group in a given range. Useful to   select all lines in comments (or more specifically perl pod) etc. and   do operations such as running a spell check on them. - New global function MSAddSelectionsByExpr() for creating new commands   such as MSMatchAddBySynGroup and MSMatchAdd by the user.
multiselect.vim	1.2	2004-10-28	6.0	Hari Krishna Dara	- MSInvert command now works better.
multiselect.vim	1.1	2004-10-20	6.0	Hari Krishna Dara	- Full support for mouse in making multiple selections. Works pretty   much like in MS word. - Improved behavior for MSInvert. Get the latest multvals.vim and genutils.vim plugins.
multiselect.vim	1.0	2004-04-04	6.0	Hari Krishna Dara	Initial upload

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