How can you insert when you are in visual block mode (by pressing ctrl-V) in Vim?
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How can you insert when you are in visual block mode (by pressing ctrl-V) in Vim?
Try this
After selecting a block of text, press Shift+i or capital I.
Lowercase i will not work.
Then type the things you want and finally to apply it to all lines, press Esc twice.
If this doesn’t work…
Check if you have
+visualextraenabled in your version of Vim.You can do this by typing in
:verand scrolling through the list of features. (You might want to copy and paste it into a buffer and do incremental search because the format is odd.)Enabling it is outside the scope of this question but I’m sure you can find it somewhere.