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		barrkel on Sept 25, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Efficient Editing With vim It's mostly useful for ASCII diagrams, in conjunction with overwrite mode.

apotheon on Sept 26, 2009 [–]

. . . or source code formatting, or adding comment characters to multiple lines, or in any other way making an identical change to several adjacent lines at the same time.

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