↳ In-reply-to » Learned to gg=G and to va", ci", di{... in vim the other day 😆 Life will never be the same, I can feel it. ref

The V: pattern itself is quite good because you can do quite a lot of powerful things with selected text.

For example: ggV}:s/^/ -/ will insert a - at the beginning of every line turning your bunch of lines into a Markdown list of items 😅