Re: "C-r" in visual mode "r" command

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:16:48PM -0400, York Zhao wrote:

I have the following text:

1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar 1 Bar

1. Yank the strings "Foo" 2. Make an rectangle block to select the first column "1" 3. Press "r" 4. Press "C-r " followed by `"' 5. I expect the text to become the following:

Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar Foo Bar

I do not know why you expect this behavior. The "r" command replaces the selected characters by another character. In you example the first character typed is "C-r" so the result should be something like ^R Bar ^R Bar ^R Bar ^R Bar ^R Bar ^R Bar and this is indeed the result in both, evil and Vim (at least in my Vim). Frank