On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:41:39AM EDT, Eric Smith wrote: > I am using DrawIt to make things like Organograms. > > It becomes messy when removing or inserting an entity. > > Then the parts of the lines to the right either become pushed to the > right or collapse to the left. > > This of course would also happen when editing just text columns. > > I found some relief by pasting in replace mode. > > What is the solution to make vim behave more like a graphics > application? (which of course it was never designed for).
So don't do it, then... :-) You may want to take a peek at: :h virtualedit I found this mode rather useful when editing rough text-mode tables or otherwise column-aligned text. CJ -- 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
