Re: Inserted text missing from blank lines after ctrl-V, vertical highlight, ctrl-I

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:03:34 AM UTC-5, AndyHancock wrote:
> I am working on a source code file with many blank lines (lines
> containing zero characters, not even white space). The cursor is on
> (say) column 5 and I press ctrl-V before highlighting a column of
> text. I then press ctrl-I to insert a comment character in the
> highlighted text column. The comment character does *not* appear at
> all in the lines that are blank.
>
> I could be mis-remembering, but I don't seem to recall this behaviour
> in the past. I thought I had vim in a mode where ctrl-V would put in
> the required white space to achieve the visual effect, regardless of
> whether or not the whitespace was there before. Is this a recent
> change in the behaviour of vim, or is there a specific setting which I
> might have muddled up in my romps through vimrc?

I think you need to tweak your 'virtualedit' setting.

I have mine at "block" and expect it to work on blank lines, and recently discovered it does not. I do not know whether this is a recent addition or whether it's always been that way, but setting it to "all" lets it work as I'd expect.

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