How to flip the lines of a visual selection in vim?

Question

I want to take a visual selection and flip it so that the first line of the selection is on the bottom. From:

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Answer 1

For those more comfortable with Visual Mode:
1. Identify the line number above the selection you want flipped using :set nu.
2. Use Shift-V to highlight selection you want flipped (visual mode).
3. :g/^/m .

Note that in visual mode it will automatically show up as :'<,'>g/^/m when you type in the command from 3.

This command works by moving the selection one line at a time into the line number that you give it. When the second item gets pushed into the line number given, it pushes the first down to line number + 1. Then the third pushes the first and second down and so on until the entire list has been pushed into the single line number resulting in a reverse ordered list.