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

Fri Sep 23 16:36:18 CEST 2011

> 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

If you have tried the scenario I provided, you would have noticed that the
result is not as what you thought either.

> and this is indeed the result in both, evil and Vim (at least in my Vim).

What you said is what is working in Vim, not what is working currently in Evil,
however, I think what is working in Evil is even better and more useful. I hope
you are not going to follow Vim this time, and I believe Evil has done better
than Vim in this matter and I don't think we have to always blindly follow Vim
even when we know it is not good in the specific situation.

If you guy's decide not to follow Vim here, than making "C-r" work in this
situation will be even better.

York