How to do Rectangular cut & Paste in VIM

[joe...@my-dejanews.com]

Hi folks :

Any idea how to do rectangular cut & paste in VIM.
Desperately need your help.

Thanks,
Joe

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[George R. Young]

Either ^v or 4 mouse clicks, make a box, delete with x, paste with p.

Regards,
George.

[Even Holen]

Thus spoke George R. Young <ag...@freenet.carleton.ca>:

>Either ^v or 4 mouse clicks, make a box, delete with x, paste with p.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey, do you mean VIM has started competing with Mac about
'who-can-use-many-mouse-clicks-as-a-command'? I've heard about
clicking, and double-clicks (and Mac's triple-click), but this is
the first quadruple-click I've heard about...

Hmmm... Could anybody tell me what 5, 6, 7, ... clicks means? I guess
somewhere along the way one have Mark-all-text-in-buffer? Maybe that's
aleph_0-clicks?

Regards,
Even Holen
beeing slightly sarchastic...
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[brian hiles]

joe...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Any idea how to do rectangular cut & paste in VIM.
> Desperately need your help.

I could swear that the last time I looked in the "VI Lover's Home Page",
there was a macro package plus program that one could use to make
rectungular selections of text in vi/m, but I cannot find it.

Sven??

-Brian

[Steffi Richter]

b...@rainey.blueneptune.com (brian hiles):

Use CTRL-v to highlight a rectangular block in vim. Then use delete (x)
and put (p) commands to do the cut and paste. This method is great for
swapping two columns of data, for example.

----Jon

[Stan Brown]

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Dixitque b...@rainey.blueneptune.com (brian hiles) in comp.editors:

>I could swear that the last time I looked in the "VI Lover's Home Page",
>there was a macro package plus program that one could use to make
>rectungular selections of text in vi/m, but I cannot find it.

There may have been, but in modern versions of Vim there's no need. From
normal mode, Ctrl-V starts a rectangular selection, just as V starts a
line-mode selection and v starts a character-mode selection.

(I may have the terminology a bit wrong, but you get the idea.)

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