Little update to VImpulse. I'm happy to announce we have a visual mode that (almost) doesn't suck. 1. works like vim in normal visual mode: the character under the cursor when you hit "v" is always selected, and so is the character under the cursor when you move. 2. works like vim in linewise mode: the line you're on is selected, the cursor movement is not restricted to the beginning of the line. As a consequence "0v$" now selects the whole line, not just the characters up to the second last in the line, and "ggVG" selects everything, not the text up to the second last line. In other words, it doesn't suck. I'm going to upload the stuff on emacs wiki when I discover how to. There are 2 things that still bother me (i guess more than 2, but only those come to mind now): A) the parens matching highlight sucks big time. example: if (giancane(cancane(giangiovanni(x), gioacchino(y)), gianny(x))) I'd like to hit $ and see if the parens match (in normal mode). But stupid emacs higlights instead the second last paren. going forward one chare _is not_ an option, as I would have to hit some stupid arrow key because viper constrains the movement (and vim too). So this is the next thing I'm going to look at. B) Before talking about the annoyance, I must say thanks to the visual block mode developers, from what I read in the comments, cppjavaperl and Frank Fisher maybe. It works great, and it's very usable as is. But it suffers of the same suckage of the old visual mode:the cursor must be placed 1 column forward of what you would expect. This leads to the same kind of suckage of the paren matching: if you want to block select from column n to column m, and m happens to be the last column in some line, you're forced to touch the arrow keys. As I know nothing about how the block mode is implemented, this will take some more time. I'll ask for information if needed. Cheers, Alessandro