I am working on a source code file with many blank lines (lines containing zero characters, not even white space). The cursor is on (say) column 5 and I press ctrl-V before highlighting a column of text. I then press ctrl-I to insert a comment character in the highlighted text column. The comment character does *not* appear at all in the lines that are blank.
I could be mis-remembering, but I don't seem to recall this behaviour in the past. I thought I had vim in a mode where ctrl-V would put in the required white space to achieve the visual effect, regardless of whether or not the whitespace was there before. Is this a recent change in the behaviour of vim, or is there a specific setting which I might have muddled up in my romps through vimrc? -- 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
