Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by puffythefish 6104 days ago
I'm not familiar with most Windows editors, but — at least on OS X — although blockwise selection is available in most editors, blockwise insertion like vim has is usually left out.

E.g., in vim say I have a list like this that I wanted to append a period to on each line (a simple example, but you can see its uses):

    foo
    bar
    baz
I would just type block-wise select it (<c-v>$jj) and then type A.<esc>

I use this feature all the time.

1 comments

Wow, I had no idea you could bulk-insert that easily! Thanks for sharing