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DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
20:15
@GregoryNisbet Hello
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
Hi.
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
So, <C-v>I will put the text not at the beginning of the line, but right before the first column of the selection. I thought that you had a number and a letter on each line, and that you wanted to put the pound sign before the letter but after the number
Which I guess wouldn't be impossible, but would be kinda hard
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
Ah, that example was supposed to illustrate how using I/A in visual line mode doesn't allow you to put text at the beginning/end of a range of lines
what I want to be able to do is select a region with visual line mode, but have it act like a visual block starting at column zero and extending to the end of the widest line when using I and A
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
Yeah, that makes sense now
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
@DJMcMayhem I think one of your earlier comments was right though. <c-v>A from visual line mode places you right after the first column. It's probably nontrivial to determine the length of the widest line in a range.
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
20:28
Hmm? I didn't say anything about <C-v>A in my comment
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
oh I thought you said that visual line mode has no concept of which columns are currently being selected
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
Oh. Yeah, that's true. But that's because I thought you wanted the pound sign in the middle of the line.
I just posted an answer. Let me know how that works for you
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
but it does have another effect. namely that selecting a range of lines in visual line mode, switching to visual block mode, Appending some text and then hitting <esc> inserts text after the first column in the line. Switching from visual line mode to visual block mode doesn't extend the block rightward in a useful fashion.
thanks.
wow. $ is visual block mode does the right thing and inserts text at the end of every line ... it doesn't just extend the right edge of the block to the end of the current line, thanks.
DJMcMayhem
DJMcMayhem
Glad I could help :)
Personally, I'd find it more useful if it did just extend the right edge of the block to the end of the current line, but oh well
Gregory Nisbet
Gregory Nisbet
Is there a way to do that? seems like a "jaggedness toggle" would do the trick.
A visual block with $ as a boundary seems like a magical kind of block.

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