New answers tagged visual-block
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There are lots of ways to do this in Vim. Which is best depends on context (which you don't provide much of in your example). Here's one method:
After adding the word in line three, type:
4G7ea<C-A>
4G " Move to the start of line 4
7e " Move to the end of the 7th word
a " Enter insert mode
<C-A> " Enter the ...
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Unfortunately, I found that this is not possible in the manner of VSCode (natively). However, you can use the multicursor plugin, macros, and */# to perform similar The comments to the question contain helpful links to old posts which are trying to achieve similar goals, some of which are possible.
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You need to set virtualedit=all. The virtualedit option controls where you can edit outside of the actual text (there are other options). Read :help 'virtualedit' for more.
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In general, visual block selections must be blocks (rectangles). The only "jagged" selections are when you hit <C-v>$ to select to the end of multiple lines.
However, depending on what you want to do, there are often several approaches. In this case, to copy:
" clear register A
let @a = ''
" yank all the words
global/=/normal! 0"Ayaw
Using a capital ...
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