jVi Visual Block Select

Question

I'm trying to do a block selection using jVi in Netbeans. I cannot seem to get it working - there seems to be a lot of good info on this topic, however I'm not seeing the answer to my problem.

This is what I understand: to do a block select, you first enter visual mode and select some text. Then you hit Ctrl-V to enter block select mode? For me, Ctrl-V pastes the clipboard, so I found someone mentioned Ctrl-Q. I try that, but I cannot get text to select in a column using the arrow keys or the h,j,k,l keys. For me, it just does a regular selection grabbing the rest of the line, and the line below (if I move the cursor down) up to the cursor.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

jVi has options to specify which control keys are handled by jVi and which passed on to NetBeans for processing. Your description indicates that Ctrl-V is being handled by NB (not by jVi). In NetBeans look at
Tools > Options > jViConfig > Ctrl-Key Bindings
and enable/check the keys that jVi should process.