Re: Virtual edit: Insert text at specific column, even on empty rows

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2:46 pm, Paul wrote:
>> I'm using Vim 7.1 for Windows.  For some reason, I have been
>> conditioned to expect the following behaviour, which I no longer get.
>>
>> when I press Ctrl-V at (say) text column 5 and cursor down, a
>> 1-character wide column is highlighted.  When I press "I", I can
>> insert text (say, "dog") and that text will appear in text columns
>> 5-7 on every row that was highlighted, including rows that had no
>> text nor whitespace.
>>
>> What I currently observe is that the inserted text does not show up
>> on empty lines crossed by the highlighted 1-character-wide column.
>>  Am I just mis-remembering how this works, or is there a switch that
>> enables the behaviour I described above?  I have virtualedit set to
>> all.
>
> I can confirm this behavior on 7.3.170. To make matters more
> interesting, if you use A instead of I, it works as expected.

See:
:help v_b_I
:help v_b_A

It explains that the difference is intentional. The text was there as
far back as Vim 7.0aa. (first version in hg repo, AFAICT)

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Best,
Ben H

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