On Jul 12, 2:46 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using Vim 7.1 for Windows. For some reason, I have been
> conditioned to expect the following behaviour, which I no longer get.
>
You should update your Vim. Vim is now on 7.3 with over 200 patches.
Nevertheless...
> when I press Ctrl-V at (say) text column 5 and cursor down, a 1-
> character wide column is highlighted. When I press "I", I can insert
> text (say, "dog") and that text will appear in text columns 5-7 on
> every row that was highlighted, including rows that had no text nor
> whitespace.
>
> What I currently observe is that the inserted text does not show up on
> empty lines crossed by the highlighted 1-character-wide column. Am I
> just mis-remembering how this works, or is there a switch that enables
> the behaviour I described above? I have virtualedit set to all.
I can confirm this behavior on 7.3.170. To make matters more
interesting, if you use A instead of I, it works as expected.
I started with gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE and entered text:
apples
grapes
bananas
I then set virtualedit=all and move the cursor past the end of line 1.
Typing Idog in visual block mode yields:
apples dog
grapes
bananas
Typing Adog yields (as expected):
apples dog
grapes dog
dog
bananas dog
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