Re: CTRL+V I CTRL+Y - duplicating text from current line.

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 03:20:17AM EDT, 'Jürgen Krämer' via vim_use wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Chris Jones schrieb am 03.07.2021 um 21:50:

[...]
>
> > Is there a better way (excluding mouse'ing and plugin'ing) to achieve
> > this?
>
> "A" in visual block mode is expected to first extend a line if 'virtualedit'
> is set to "block" or "all" and the cursor is placed beyond the end of line,
> so you might want to change the first step to "t<" and the sixth one to "A".

I should have mentioned that I indifferently use 'I' or 'A' depending on
the circumstances and that the result is the same. I have to force the
padding of the lines with spaces up to the insertion point (col. 60 in
the example) for it to work.

Small issue but I think this is not consistent behaviour: whatever the
doc says the user would expect block insert to insert something rather
than be left wondering uh-oh... what did I do wrong THIS time... :)

Not making an issue of it but perhaps virtualedit= should have an
additional flag that says complete all lines with white space before
performing the block insert?

Thanks,

CJ

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