patch 8.0.1041: bogus characters when indenting during visual-block append commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e2e69e48134cbfdedea7802810932f8592705024 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Sep 2 20:30:35 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.1041: bogus characters when indenting during visual-block append Problem: Bogus characters appear when indenting kicks in while doing a visual-block append. Solution: Recompute when indenting is done. (Christian Brabandt)

--- a/src/charset.c
+++ b/src/charset.c
@@ -1536,6 +1536,22 @@ skipwhite(char_u *q)
 }
 
 /*
+ * getwhitecols: return the number of whitespace
+ * columns (bytes) at the start of a given line
+ */
+    int
+getwhitecols_curline()
+{
+    return getwhitecols(ml_get_curline());
+}
+
+    int
+getwhitecols(char_u *p)
+{
+    return skipwhite(p) - p;
+}
+
+/*
  * skip over digits
  */
     char_u *