title: Vim: Quickly select rectangular blocks of text in visual-block mode
body: <p>I'm looking for a fast way to select a block of text in visual-block mode. I deal with files of this nature:</p>
  
  <pre><code>aaaa bbbb cccc
  aaaa bbbb cccc
  aaaa bbbb cccc
  
  dddd Xeee ffff
  dddd eeee ffff
  dddd eeee ffff
  
  gggg hhhh iiii
  gggg hhhh iiii
  gggg hhhh iiii
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My goal is to select the middle block in visual-block mode. I would do:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Navigate to the corner (where the X is)</li>
  <li>Ctrl-V</li>
  <li>'e' to extend selection to the end of block</li>
  <li>'jj' or '2j' to extend the selection downward to the bottom of the block.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I'm looking for an alternative to (4) that, similar to 'e', would move to the last row of the block. In this simple example 'jj' is not too inconvenient, but sometimes these are large blocks.</p>
  
  <p>There's a similar question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7406949/vim-faster-way-to-select-blocks-of-text-in-visual-mode">here</a> , but that involves jumping a pre-determined number of lines. Is there a way to do this, again an analog to 'e', but moving row-wise instead of column-wise?  Thanks!</p>