While I can understand the percentage sign % being chosen to represent the current file, just because you need to choose some character for that, I am curious as to why '<,'> is representative of the current visual selection. Why not just use a single character to represent the visual selection?Can these characters be parsed to have a different meaning? is '< supposed to mean something like, The lesser than value of the quoted text ?Are there any other useful variations of '<,'> that I should know, say for example, '>,'<?
Why is the visual selection represented by these characters: ' ? Can it be parsed?
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