I'm not familiar with most Windows editors, but — at least on OS X — although blockwise selection is available in most editors, blockwise insertion like vim has

I'm not familiar with most Windows editors, but — at least on OS X — although blockwise selection is available in most editors, blockwise insertion like vim has is usually left out. E.g., in vim say I have a list like this that I wanted to append a period to on each line (a simple example, but you can see its uses): foo bar baz I would just type block-wise select it (<c-v>$jj) and then type A.<esc> I use this feature all the time.