Re: V-Block Multi-line insert

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:59:13 AM UTC-5, Marc Jessome wrote:
> Hello,
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> It is possible to do a visual block insert into multiple lines, through
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> <C-v>, select a column spanning the lines you want to edit, then
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> pressing 'I'. I use this fairly often, but it doesn't seem to work with
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> deletion.
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> Example being: <C-v>jjI<Del><Del><Esc>
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> Which doesn't delete two characters from each line.
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> Is there any way to get this working with deletes?
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Sure, just don't use I:
<C-v>jjlld

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> I am also curious if it is possible to do a selection that skips lines
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> so that I could, say, insert the letter 'a' at the beginning of lines
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> 10-15, 18 and 20.
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Nope.

But there plugins. Here's a couple, there are probably more:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=953
https://github.com/felixr/vim-multiedit

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