Emacs: The need to Perform commands inside an evil Visual block selection

by ninrod 7 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color ◆ zsh 2310 views

Where I demonstrate why a package that allowed us to perform commands enclosed in a visually selected block region would be useful.

in time: I found this, but that does not work with evil-ex commands: https://github.com/troyp/evil-visual-replace

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