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# Previous Visual Selection

Typing `gv` in normal mode will re-select the previous visual selection. This makes it easy to re-select a specific block of text. For instance, if you are performing a search and replace on a visual selection and you didn't get the regex quite right, you can quickly type `gv` and then edit the regex of your previous command.