--- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > To draw ASCII figures within an area of text, I suggest > Virtual-Replace > mode (see ":help gR" and ":help Virtual-Replace-mode") with > 'virtualedit' set to "all". > I tried the V-R mode and found it very useful, thanks!
> To be able to swap lines within a visual block, I suggest: > 1. delete the block > 2. put it after the end of the file > 3. edit it there > 4. mark it again, blockwise, and check that the block is still > rectangular > 5. delete, then put it back where it belongs. > These are the steps I tried to avoid. > Vim treats each line as an entity: swapping lines is basically (IIUC) > > just pointer manipulation. Treating a blockwise selection as if it > were > a file without moving it might be something else altogether. Now what > I see. I had to ask, in case Vim were structured in a way that makes this feature easy. The difficulty I see that calls for within-block-editing is when a small part of a complex picture needs to be re-done. To do it without affecting other part of the figure is cumbersome. Now Virtual-Replace mode is all fine when one starts to create a picture, but one cannot use any Normal-mode commands there, nor can he copy-and-paste. > might be feasible in Vim-script (and maybe Dr. Chip has already done > it, > I haven't checked) would be a mapping which would extract the current > > block selection to a separate Vim window so you could edit it in its > own > buffer; and another mapping to close the auxiliary window and > reinsert > the modified text where it came from. > I haven't looked hard enough, maybe. But since it is possible in scripts as you've described, I'd like to give it a try. Thanks. Wei __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
