Re: [vile] Rectangular fiddling

[Paul Fox]

tom wrote:
 > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
 > 
 > > Hello all,
 > >
 > > This week I discovered that vile could do more with rectangular
 > > selections than I had previously assumed.  Seeing vim-users doing all
 > > kind of useful tricks, I investigated what vile could do.  I have some
 > > observations and I am interested in your thoughts about them.
 > >
 > > * If one uses `c' followed by a rectangular selection, vile queries for
 > >  a string to fill it with.  If the string is shorter than the width
 > >  of the selection, the rest is filled with NULL-chars instead of
 > >  spaces.  Is this a feature or a bug?
 > 
 > I assume it's a bug (I recall that it's supposed to fill with spaces).

i agree it's a bug.  and while it may have been intended to fill
with spaces (after all, i truncates if the replacement string is too
long), i can't help thinking that it would be more useful if it
grew or shrank the space to fit the new text.  i usually find myself
having to do ^A-r and/or d commands to adjust the rectangle to match
the text.

paul
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