Re: [vile] Rectangular fiddling

[Paul Fox]

paul van tilburg wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:29:03AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > I was about to suggest that. :) That behaviour is more similar to
 > what `c' would do in the non-rectangular case.. if it would have
 > prompted for the new text.  It's nice to keep things analogous
 > for simplicity (for the mind).

right.  what it should really do is behave just like 'c' for non-rectangles,
and not prompt at all.  blame the original author.  :-)

paul
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