On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:59:13 AM UTC-5, Marc Jessome wrote: > Hello, > > > > It is possible to do a visual block insert into multiple lines, through > > <C-v>, select a column spanning the lines you want to edit, then > > pressing 'I'. I use this fairly often, but it doesn't seem to work with > > deletion. > > > > Example being: <C-v>jjI<Del><Del><Esc> > > Which doesn't delete two characters from each line. > > Is there any way to get this working with deletes? >
Sure, just don't use I: <C-v>jjlld > > > I am also curious if it is possible to do a selection that skips lines > > so that I could, say, insert the letter 'a' at the beginning of lines > > 10-15, 18 and 20. > Nope. But there plugins. Here's a couple, there are probably more: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=953 https://github.com/felixr/vim-multiedit -- 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
