What I want to do
I want to select a block of text in Vim, delete it, and replace the selected block with spaces.
Example
Suppose I have the following text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce facilisis arcu porta leo efficitur malesuada. In eget turpis erat. Sed ipsum metus, malesuada bibendum ipsum vel, molestie convallis nisi. Suppose I wish to remove the block of text indicated by the hyphens:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing el------sce facilisis arcu porta leo eff------ malesuada. In eget turpis erat. ------sum metus, malesuada bibendum ipsum vel, molestie convallis nisi. How could I turn the original paragraph into the following?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing el sce facilisis arcu porta leo eff malesuada. In eget turpis erat. sum metus, malesuada bibendum ipsum vel, molestie convallis nisi. My Understanding
I understand how to select a block of text in Vim: I press Ctrlv to enable Visual block mode, then use arrow keys to outline/select the block.
I can also delete a selected block by pressing d.
However, I don't know how to replace the text with spaces quickly (without manually inserting each in insert mode, or manually adding them in a way similar to this), or whether there's a better way to do this.
