prepend to visual block not working in vim

Question

I\'m really fond of this idea of using Ctrl-V (Ctrl-Q in windows) to modify a visual block. The technique is explained here: In

Answer 1

The source of the problem was lack of compiled support (thanks to my shared hosting provider). For others who are having a similar problem, check vim for the +visualextra option. You can check from normal mode with:

:echo has('visualextra')

It will return a "1" if it does. Otherwise you can look using:

:version

Or by invoking the --version option from the commandline:

vim --version | grep visualextra