Is it possible to ignore white space in visual mode?

[alienbogart]

I'm using speeddating with vim-orgmode, and I wonder if it would be possible to prevent this behavior: https://asciinema.org/a/HZ3SiUtzAjPPLXbh2EFxB40I7. Speeddating fill the empty lines with dates. I understand this it not a bug, it's documented. But it would be nice if I could opt out of this feature it so I can easily update my lists. Thanks.

[tpope]

I think it would be a reasonable change to the official behavior to skip blank lines if there are other lines that are filled in. If you want me to implement said change you may be waiting a while.

[alienbogart]

That's fine, I was hopeful that it could be easily disabled somehow. I'll try to implement it when I learn more about Vim. Thanks.

[tpope]

Word of encouragement, it's old code I don't remember very well, but it's probably (wink) one long if statement or two to rectify. You can do it!