On 03/10/12 11:18 AM, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 9:59:13 AM UTC-5, Marc Jessome wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> It is possible to do a visual block insert into multiple lines, through
>>
>> <C-v>, select a column spanning the lines you want to edit, then
>>
>> pressing 'I'. I use this fairly often, but it doesn't seem to work with
>>
>> deletion.
>>
>>
>>
>> Example being:<C-v>jjI<Del><Del><Esc>
>>
>> Which doesn't delete two characters from each line.
>>
>> Is there any way to get this working with deletes?
>>
>
> Sure, just don't use I:
> <C-v>jjlld
>
Of course, not sure why I was over-complicating things here.
>>
>>
>> I am also curious if it is possible to do a selection that skips lines
>>
>> so that I could, say, insert the letter 'a' at the beginning of lines
>>
>> 10-15, 18 and 20.
>>
>
> 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
>
Will give these a shot, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Marc
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