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Intro

Selection modes 1 dictates how core movements works.

There are 2 categories of selection modes:

  1. Primary
  2. Secondary

Contiguity​

Selection modes are categorized by their contiguity.

If a selection mode is contiguous, it means that there are no meaningful gaps between each of the selections.

A gap is meaningful if it's neither whitespaces only nor separators like , or ;.

Primary selection modes are contiguous, while secondary selection modes are non-contiguous.

Footnotes​

  1. For Vim users, selection mode means text objects. ↩