Rectangles considered harmful
Just kidding. But I did just got to the part in the book (actually I skipped ahead) where it shows one how to use a Emacs Rectangle (Vim’s visual block). It’s ok. It works much the same way. It’s not quite as intuitive, and it doesn’t actually highlight the part of the file where the marks are set, but I might be used to vim’s way of doing it and thinking this is harder.
I need to work with it some more.
In general I think rectangles etc. are a lot less important in Emacs since Emacs tends to understand your code a lot better than Vim does. For example, in Emacs you can just mark a region and tell Emacs to comment it (don’t ask me what the binding is though ;) ).
Sure. I think visual line will be less important, but visual block is really nice for all purpose text editing. I use that a lot to clean up files and such, not just code. After I get some more time under my belt it might be nice to compare notes with you.