Tips: don't lose selection when shifting sidewards

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,16 +6,14 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Added
 
 - Basics: [Quickfix and location lists?](README.md#quickfix-and-location-lists)
-
 - Quirks: [Newline used for NUL](README.md#newline-used-for-nul)
-
 - Plugins: [New section "Commenters"](README.md#commenters)
 - Plugins: [New section "Misc"](README.md#misc)
 - Plugins: [New section "Tmux"](README.md#tmux)
-
 - Tips: [Saner behavior of n and N](README.md#saner-behavior-of-n-and-n)
 - Tips: [Quickly move current line](README.md#quickly-move-current-line)
 - Tips: [Quickly add empty lines](README.md#quickly-add-empty-lines)
+- Tips: [Don't lose selection when shifting sidewards](README.md#dont-lose-selection-when-shifting-sidewards)
 
 ## [1.0] - 2016-01-06
 First release!

README.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 - [Saner behavior of n and N](#saner-behavior-of-n-and-n)
 - [Quickly move current line](#quickly-move-current-line)
 - [Quickly add empty lines](#quickly-add-empty-lines)
+- [Don't lose selection when shifting sidewards](#dont-lose-selection-when-shifting-sidewards)
 
 #### [Debugging](#debugging-1)
 - [General tips](#general-tips)
@@ -381,6 +382,19 @@ nnoremap [<space>  :put! =''<cr>
 nnoremap ]<space>  :put =''<cr>
 ```
 
+#### Don't lose selection when shifting sidewards
+
+If you select one or more lines, you can use `<` and `>` for shifting them
+sidewards. Unfortunately you immediately lose the selection afterwards.
+
+You can use `gv` to reselect the last selection (see `:h gv`), thus you can work
+around it like this:
+```viml
+xnoremap <  <gv
+xnoremap >  >gv
+```
+Now you can use `>>>>>` on your visual selection without any problems.
+
 ## Debugging
 
 #### General tips