Ah. You can select arbitrary (rectangular) blocks of text using Ctrl-V followed by movement.

Good! I'm not quite as handy with the help system yet.

Exactly how that relates to pasting I'm not sure.

I'm not describing this well. Like I said in my reply to Tony, I can probably use macros to do what I want, it's just an operation that's become a non-thinking keystroke for me. To explain:

The question is where the cursor is put after you paste a column of text. Some editors leave the cursor where it is and simply dump the column of text after it. Others put the cursor on the last row of text that was pasted after the last character, which seems the most intuitive. The editor I'm used to, however, would place the cursor in the same column as it started, but on the next line after the block that was just pasted. This gave the column paste the additional functionality of allowing you to repeat columns sequentially very easily, which is nice for working with some objects or commenting out large blocks of code with line comments rather than block comments (which you may want to do if you're debugging and want to uncomment a few lines at a time). Anyway, I'm not saying that this is the correct behavior when pasting a column, it's just handy and what I'm used to. I'll probably have to get over it.