There should be a block selection mode when pressing Ctrl+V about vintage

[Qix-]

This hasn't been updated in almost 5 years. This won't be fixed. They have abandoned this project. Find another Vim plugin. '+1'-ing it won't help.

[MitchellMcKenna]

+1 for this, as a VIM user Visual Block mode is engrained into my head, not having it is a deal breaker for me

[franciscolopezsancho]

Yess. Thanks!!. NeoVintageous has block-selection mode. You need to activate it though; go to Preferences -> Settings and set "vintageous_use_ctrl_keys": true,

[rschalch]

+10000

[anaskhan96]

@kyleholzinger you might be interested in checking out Vintageous. I just started using it as an alternative to Vintage, and for starters, they have Visual Block mode.

[lvvorz]

+10086s

[avegancafe]

This is awesome @anaskhan96, I actually found NeoVintageous works better for me, but thanks for the recommendation!

[misfo]

In my experience Vim's block selection is useful in a subset of the case for which Sublime's multiple selection is useful (i.e. multiple selection is more powerful). So I'm more than happy having multiple selection instead. Thoughts?

[maelp]

I did not know at that time that there existed a multiple selection feature,
however I'd be interested to know how to easily write a plugin such
that ctrl+v enters column multiple selection mode,
and that pressing up and down selects the column on the line above or
below, and pressing left and right is equivalent to pressing
shift+left and shift+right in multiple selection in that it does a
block selection
is that complex to write, would you mind giving me a hint as to where
I should look to understand how to do this (I know Python but I never
wrote plugins for Sublime Text, plus I wonder whether one should add
the key shortcut to the vintage shortcuts or to the Sublime Text
general key shortcuts? )

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 06:38, Trent Ogren
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In my experience Vim's block selection is useful in a subset of the case for which Sublime's multiple selection is useful (i.e. multiple selection is more powerful).  So I'm more than happy having multiple selection instead.  Thoughts?

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[guillermooo]

@misfo, I don't think ST has a true block selection? Vertical selections that are smaller than whole lines will necessarily be multiple selections. I'm fine with this.

So:

• CTRL-V
• 2j

...would yield three selections starting at the same column. Further horizontal movement should then work as in multiple selections. Further vertical movement should add/subtract selections.

Is that what you mean?

[misfo]

I think that could work. I'm just not sure it would provide much advantage over just using the existing multiple selection functionality with Vintage mode

[maelp]

That would be great

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 14:06, Trent Ogren
[email protected]
wrote:

I think that could work. I'm just not sure it would provide much advantage over just using the existing multiple selection functionality with Vintage mode

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[guillermooo]

Meaning Ctrl+D and Ctrl+U only? I would certainly like to be able to extend/shrink the selection vertically with j/k instead of Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Down. TBH, I've tried to implement this already, but I gave up after a couple of attempts.

[phzbox]

I agree that Ctrl+V should do a block selection rather than paste in vim-mode (where people paste with p and P).

@MitchellMcKenna : An easy workaround is to use "wv" instead of ctrl+v, which select the next word. More often than not, I was doing ctrl+v ww or something similar, so by not having the block selection, I make my selection more accurate the first time : )

[yinrong]

+1 want ctrl+v to be vertical selction

[ethan-cao]

vote for it!

[xsong16]

+1 for this too

[slonia]

+1

[Yakubovich]

+1 (this is currently my only reason for not switching to Sublime)

[guillermooo]

@Yakubovich Have you tried Vintageous (on GH too)?

[Yakubovich]

@guillermooo thanks, that works for me!

[tonnyone]

+1 i need the Ctrl + v

[ebylund]

This is my biggest hold back for not using sublime as my full time editor. I love the out of the box vintage mode, but the block selection is a huge feature i use that i wish it had

[arasmussen]

+1 want

[jwmortensen]

+1

[yinrong]

stop using sublime. back to using VIM and find I just don't need sublime

[hanjukim]

+1 ctrl+v to column selection!!

[hkinks]

+1

[caiotomazelli]

+1

[tl3shi]

+1

[raghavrv]

+100

[trobert2]

+1

[hlzz]

+10086

[Qix-]

4 years later, still not here. Still a dealbreaker. Even if ^V meant using Sublime's multiple selection thing, then great. The fact it isn't there in any capacity forces me not to use Sublime unfortunately.

[tomleo]

In some vim GUIs ctrl-q is used instead of ctrl-v. By using ctrl-q, you don't change the default key mapping for ctrl-v.

+10086

[theSha1chemist]

+ 1

[omarps]

+1

[happyHou]

+1

[fut33v]

+1

[yudai524]

+1

[happyHou]

+1

[mikeybkats]

+1

[mgresko]

+1

[mgresko]

+1

[marciol]

+1

[odjhey]

+1111 any update on this?

[roskow12]

+1

[houming818]

+1 want ctrl+v to be vertical selction

[tgudlek]

+1

[pyq19]

+1s

[avegancafe]

+1

[mfournial]

+1

[ksttest]

+1

[samwestmoreland]

+1

[avegancafe]

Is there any reason for this not to be updated? This is a built-in plugin in sublime. If it's abandoned, it should probably be taken out

[anaskhan96]

It's real sad to see they've abandoned this issue as it is. Visual Block mode is a critical feature, and there should've been atleast some steps taken toward addressing its absence, specially if there's support from users in the community over a course of almost 6 years now.

[avegancafe]

++ @anaskhan96 . This is the sole reason that I refuse to use sublime. I use like 7 different editors and sublime beats all of them in many many ways, but this is far too crucial of a feature to be missing.

[ghking1]

+1

[wsunid]

+1

[StephenLeeUSTC]

This is awesome @anaskhan96, I actually found NeoVintageous works better for me, but thanks for the recommendation!

That's really awesome! I really recommend vim user like me install and config it.

[jkryanchou]

vintageous_use_ctrl_keys

Wow! it works, I'm looking forward the solution for a long time. Excellent Job!