Visual block select stops at empty lines

[normenmueller]

Visual block selection (Ctrl + V) stops at

• empty lines and
• lines with automatic line wrap in contract to Ctrl + Shift + Up/ Down.

For example:

first line
second line
<empty line, i.e., w/o any character not even a single white space>
third line
fourth line

Or:

1: This is a very long line with
automatic line wrap enabled.
2: <empty line, like above>
3: This is another very long line
with automatic line wrap enabled.

[YayC]

Came here to post this issue. You can enter visual block mode from an empty line, but it stops at the next one.