vi: column editing

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> I have found it. it's called visual block mode. I should have consulted 
> /usr/share/vim/vim62/doc/quickref.txt.
> 
> press CTRL-V to turn it on and off. You can cut-and-paste a column of 
> text just like what Semware Qedit could do.

Ah. So *that's* what that does. I wondered - I usually end up hitting
Ctrl-V in vi thinking I'm in emacs and will page down one page...

Kurt
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