Re: insert deselects rectselection

Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 4:57:50 AM UTC-6, christoph.kliemt@pgxml.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i select a rectangular region with Ctrl-v and some cursor movement
>> commands.
>> Next, i want to append some chars to every column of the rectangle
>> typing A.
>> This puts vim into insert-mode (as expected), but unselects the region
>> (not expected) so that the insert command only affects the line where
>> the cursor is.
>> Is this the expected behaviour?
>>
>
> It's expected that the visual block goes away, and your edit will only
> appear on a single line while you are in insert mode.
>
> But when you hit <Esc> to leave insert mode after appending your text,
> the change should get applied to every line anyway. Doesn't this
> happen for you?

Hmmm... happens as expected when i use <Esc>, but if i use <Ctrl-C> to
leave visual mode, nothing happens; both end visual mode. Why is this?

regards,

Christoph

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