Friday, October 21, 2011

Re: drawing and column editing in vim

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:41:39AM EDT, Eric Smith wrote:

> I am using DrawIt to make things like Organograms.
>
> It becomes messy when removing or inserting an entity.
>
> Then the parts of the lines to the right either become pushed to the
> right or collapse to the left.
>
> This of course would also happen when editing just text columns.
>
> I found some relief by pasting in replace mode.
>
> What is the solution to make vim behave more like a graphics
> application? (which of course it was never designed for).

So don't do it, then... :-)

You may want to take a peek at:

:h virtualedit

I found this mode rather useful when editing rough text-mode tables or
otherwise column-aligned text.

CJ

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