Am Sonntag, den 06.05.2007, 12:31 -0500 schrieb Tim Chase: > >> Selecting a block (Ctrl-V), then pressing I (shift-i) and > >> entering text which then gets inserted into all rows of the > >> block at the same > > column. > > > > I've tried to that some time ago, because i though that should > > work the way you described it. But it didn't and still > > doesn't work on my vim, so i'm quite surprised by your tip :-) > > > > > > But as it doesn't work: do you have to enable some setting to > > use that feature? > > Odd that it doesn't work for you. I'm running vim7 on Debian > testing (though since the release, this might be Debian-stable). > Visual block mode, as described in > > :help v_b_i > :help v_b_a > > works as advertised. A couple things to ensure: > > ... > > 2) you're sure you're doing this in block-wise visual-mode rather > than line-wise or character-wise visual mode? (control+V rather > than "v" or "V")
:-) Don't mind, my fault. Greets, Hans-Juergen
