Keyboard-only column block selection in GVim Win32, or why does Ctrl-Q not emulate Ctrl-V when mswin.vim is included?

Question

I want to be able to select columnar blocks using only the keyboard when I use GVim on Windows, but I do not seem to be able to do so when using gvim (7.2) on Windows XP. E

Answer 1

The best thing to do is to remove these lines from your vimrc. They are totally unecessary and change too many basic Vim features.