# Vim Tips of the Day # Re-selection of a visual When you use control-v or shift-v in `vim` to do a visual selection and then use (for instance) `y` to copy the selected text, you loose the selection. More often than not you want to do another thing with the selection you just had. How? gv Copy to clipboard Make a selection and use "*yy Now the selection is 'under your mouse'. If think I'm going to bind this sequence to something more easy, like `*Y`.