Vim: Reverse selection

Question

If my line looks like this:

abcdefghi

How can I reverse the selected characters (for example: from position 2 to position 6 (5 characters)) to get the result like this:

a(fedcb)ghi

And how can I yank, reverse and paste somewhere else to get the result like this:

abcdefghi(fedcb)

NB: parentheses used only for visualization.

Thor · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-06T10:14:38.090

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You could use the 'revins' option to do this, as suggested here:

vnoremap <f4> c<C-O>:set ri<CR><C-R>"<Esc>:set nori<CR>

If you want to paste it somewhere else, yank it as you otherwise do and use this "reverse paste" mapping:

nnoremap <f4> :set ri<cr>i<C-r>"<Esc>:set nori<cr>

edited Feb 06 '13 at 10:14

answered Feb 06 '13 at 10:06

Thor

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´revins´ should solve my problem, but I am getting ´"E481: No range allowed"´. – pogibas Feb 06 '13 at 12:19
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@Poe, use `:` to get rid of the range. – romainl Feb 06 '13 at 14:34

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