On Jul 12, 5:49 pm, "Benjamin R. Haskell" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ben Fritz wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2:46 pm, Paul 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. > > >> 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. > > See: > :help v_b_I > :help v_b_A > > It explains that the difference is intentional. The text was there as > far back as Vim 7.0aa. (first version in hg repo, AFAICT) > > -- > Best, > Ben H
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