Sometimes I have a bunch of lines, where there's a column clearly indicating some commonality between them, which in general doesn't go far beyond that column; this is an example, I think general enough:
...
what 1: and then
who 2: there's
when 3: some other
where 4: text
ok? 5: on these lines
...
I want to insert the characterwise text from a register (say the text is text from some register,
) in those five lines, right after the space which follows the :
, so that the result looks like this:
...
what 1: text from some register,and then
who 2: text from some register,there's
when 3: text from some register,some other
where 4: text from some register,text
ok? 5: text from some register,on these lines
...
If I with the cursor on the second a
in the file I hit Ctrl-V4jP, the letters a
, t
, s
, t
, o
are deleted, just like :h v_p
describes.