Vim select the ends of multiple lines (block mode, but where the ending column varies)

Question

Is there any way in vim that I can select the end of all these lines? (I'm only showing the end of the lines in these screenshots).

In block mode I can get them all if the bottom line is longer than the rest, but if the bottom line is shorter, the longer lines are truncated.

EDIT | I guess I can just pad out the bottom line with spaces before I select, then delete the spaces later.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10772598/vim-select-the-ends-of-multiple-lines-block-mode-but-where-the-ending-column-v

Answer 1

1. Put your cursor on the top-left character you want to be part of the block.
2. Enter block selection mode with ctrl+v
3. Select to the end of the line with $ (this is the step you're missing; if you move to the end of the first line using $ then the selection will extend to the end of subsequent lines as well)
4. Move down 3 lines with 3j

There's more information in the Vim documentation's section on visual mode which you can read online, or just type :help v_$ in Vim.