range for visual selection

[stumash]

Feature already in Vim?

no

Feature description

let's say I have a text file

here's a line of text.
then another.
and finally a third line.

let's say I go to visual mode and select some text (selection indicated by upper case letters)

here's a line OF TEXT.
THEN ANOther.
and finally a third line.

while the text is visually selected, when I hit : I go to command mode with a line range

:'<,'>

and let's say I end up doing

:'<,'>s/t/ZZ/g

that would leave the file like this

here's a line of ZZexZZ.
ZZhen anoZZher.
and finally a third line.

THE PROBLEM IS: I didn't select the whole first two lines, I only selected of text.\nthen ano

I don't want every single t in the lines that include my visual selection to be replaced, I only want the ts that are within the selection itself to be replaced. That last ZZ shouldn't have happened becase that t was outside my selection.

Is there anyway to do this?
Can we add a syntax (I propose :`<,`>) for when we want comands to operate only the selection itself, not all the lines that contain it.

[gpanders]

See
vim/vim#1448
vim/vim#4272
vim/vim#3292

[stumash]

I'm not sure I understand the status of this feature request based on the issues you linked to.

is vim/vim#3292 still TODO? can we not just beat them to it here in neovim?

[gpanders]

can we not just beat them to it here in neovim?

Sure, PRs welcome. Or even better, send one to Vim and we can port it here so everyone benefits.

[stumash]

sounds easy enough 😛 jk no it doesn't

[616b2f]

can we close this as duplicate of #22297