Rectangular select option
By packetcollis... on March 23, 2012 04:50 (imported from Google Code)
For anyone familiar with vim, the easiest way to describe it is that I'm requesting the ability to do a "visual block" select (aka Ctrl-V).
For anyone else, I'd like to be able to select an arbitrary rectangle of text, not just consecutive lines (for example, the first 5 characters of 8 lines).
Reason:
I often work on remote servers and have a tmux session open with multiple windows. I can't copy text from a single window easily. Secondly, when I'm working in vim (locally or remotely), and I open two or more buffers aligned vertically (using :vnew, for example), the same problem occurs.