On Jul 12, 5:25 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Thanks. I'll use A from now on when I need it. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
