Weiguang Shi wrote:
I was wondering if there is a plan to add the feature of Normal-mode
editing within a visual block. This would be very useful when drawing
ASCII figures in Vim, when you want to focus on and make changes in
a region....
If you want to draw ascii figures in vim, may I suggest looking into the
DrawIt plugin:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=40
If what you want, speaking from a Vim point of view, is to:
a) visual-block select a rectangle of text
b) copy block to a separate tab using a temporary buffer
c) edit the tab
d) move resulting tab's text back to the original rectangle
e) wipe the temporary buffer
then I suggest writing a (probably fairly small) plugin to do so. I
also seem to remember
that somewhere along the line that you also wanted to swap visual-block
selected text. For that,
please consider:
http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimFuncs
see "Visual Mode Based Swapping"
and get the <visswap.vim> plugin. With it:
a) visual block select text-block #1
b) ctrl-y
c) visual block select text-block #2
d) ctrl-x
and the two text blocks will be swapped.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
