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

Further to Dave Kirby's answer and addressing the "how to do this simply" requirement, you could create a shortcut in your .vimrc file. The following example maps the F5 key to this shortcut:

map :'<,'>!tail -r

or for OS X:

map :'<,'>!tac