Re: Visual blcok: Force insert ("I") to insert even in rows that have no characters

On Mi, 16 Sep 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:

> On 2015-09-16, 'Jürgen Krämer' via vim_use wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Paul schrieb am 16.09.2015 um 15:42:
> > > When coding, I often press ctrl-V, highlight a column of text of a certain
> > > height, then press "I" to insert (say) a comment delimiter or a line
> > > continuation flag character. This doesn't quite work on short rows of text
> > > that end before the column that I'm highlighting. I would like vim to
> > > append the required spaces to permit the insertion. Is there a switch for
> > > this?
> >
> > use "A" instead of "I". "A" will first pad short lines with white space
> > to reach the required length.
>
> Good suggestion. I wasn't aware of that difference between "I" and
> "A".

That is mentioned briefly in the help (of course ;)):

,----
| Note: "I" and "A" behave differently for lines that don't extend into
| the selected block. This was done intentionally, so that you can do it
| the way you want.
`----

>
> I would have thought that setting ve=all would work, too, but it
> doesn't. It's OK with me that it doesn't, but it's not what I
> expected.

That was my feeling as well.

Best,
Christian
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