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Problem with evil-mode visual selection (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by juboba@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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I would like to select the whole function by going to VISUAL mode and using $ to go to the last character and then going to the matching bracket with %. Doing this in NORMAL mode works fine, but when in VISUAL, it doesn't. How can I fix this? Or, what should I check to fix this?

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[–] javajunkie314@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If I understand what you're describing, your point is on the first line of a function (not necessarily at the end). You press V to go into (line) visual mode, and then $%. And that's not working?

When I do that, I do wind up with the entire function selected as I'd expect. FWIW, I'm using evil mode as configured by Spacemacs, and I tested it out in a random Go file I had open. It looks like Spacemacs does add a bunch of extra packages in their evil layer*, but I checked and % is bound to evil-jump-item from the evil package.

* Not to be confused with their evil lair.