Vim How to insert in visual block mode

Question

How can you insert when you are in visual block mode  by pressing ctrl-V  in Vim

User · Accepted Answer

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  visualextra enabled in your version of Vim  You can do this by typing in  ver and 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

User · Answer

You  might also have a use case where you want to delete a block of text and replace it     Like this  Hello World Hello World   You can visual block select before  W  and hit Shift i - Type  Cool  - Hit ESC and then delete  World  by visual block selection     Alternatively  the cooler way to do it is to just visual block select  World  in both lines  Type c for change  Now you are in the insert mode  Insert the stuff you want and hit ESC  Both gets reflected with lesser keystrokes   Hello Cool  Hello Cool

User · Answer

press ctrl and v      start select press shift and i     then type in any text press esc esc         press esc twice

User · Answer

if you want to add new text before or after the selected colum    press ctrl v select columns press shift i write your text press esc press  jj

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