On Jul 12, 6:10 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I forgot to add that my organization no longer provide admin accounts to mere users. Vim 7.1 was installed under an admin account that no longer exists. Though it isn't impossible to upgrade, it is be significantly more involved. -- 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
