On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 06:54:38 UTC+8, hiwa wrote: > Oh Ben, you are right. > > This morning I tried to do THE same task by using ONLY vim key commands like > [h][j][k][l] for cursor movement, then I got the perfect desired result i.e. > a vertical pasting. The lesson I may have learned is "don't use mouse for > cursor movement for gvim rectangular operations", and, "You only should use > those venerable vim key commands". > > I prefer an appropriate set of menu items and mouse operations, though. Gvim > must be a GUIed vim. > > Thanks, any way. > > > On 2017年01月03日 23:52, Ben Fritz wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 6:55:13 AM UTC-6, hiwa wrote: > >> Thanks Aswin and Pongthep. I think I was doing the same thing as suggested > >> by using the gvim gui, that is, using a small animal-like good-old hand > >> device and everytime got the funny pasting result by hitting [p]. > >> > >> On the jEdit program which is one of the new generation of the text > >> editors on Linux, you have [rectangular select] and [clipboard > >> extension]>>[vertical paste] menu items under the [[Edit]] primary menu. > >> This "vertical paste" thing did the task I wanted long perfectly. > >> > >> I shall use the jEdit editor when some table-like editing operation is > >> needed. > >> > >> Any way, thanks very much for your valuable helps. Thanks again. > >> > >> > > > > If you were to actually, correctly, use CTRL+V to select the text you > > copied, then Vim will AUTOMATICALLY do a "vertical paste". > > > > Either you aren't following directions, or you have a mapping interfering. > > You shouldn't need a different editor to do this. It's built into Vim and > > has been for years. > >
Use Alt-LMB (Left Mouse Button) to do a VISUAL BLOCK selection. Add two spaces, and do a paste... HTH -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
