Re: [vile] Rectangular fiddling

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This week I discovered that vile could do more with rectangular
> selections than I had previously assumed.  Seeing vim-users doing all
> kind of useful tricks, I investigated what vile could do.  I have some
> observations and I am interested in your thoughts about them.
>
> * If one uses `c' followed by a rectangular selection, vile queries for
>  a string to fill it with.  If the string is shorter than the width
>  of the selection, the rest is filled with NULL-chars instead of
>  spaces.  Is this a feature or a bug?

I put a fix for that in my current changes -

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/

The surprising thing was that the bug dated back to 1996.  While 
rectangles are a nice feature, I guess most people probably don't use the 
more exotic things.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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