On May 22, 12:25 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:03:34 AM UTC-5, AndyHancock wrote: > > 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? > > I think you need to tweak your 'virtualedit' setting. > > I have mine at "block" and expect it to work on blank lines, and > recently discovered it does not. I do not know whether this is a > recent addition or whether it's always been that way, but setting it > to "all" lets it work as I'd expect.
That's funny. I have it set to all. :( -- 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
