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When visually selecting rectangles with C-v in evil, the point is not allowed to pass the end of line.
This is in contrast with:
rectangle-mark-modecua-rectangle-mark-modeBoth of which allow the point to pass the EOL. (Although evils behavior is correct vim emulation)
Is there any way I can bring this functionality to evil?
You'd be better off creating an evil key map for one of the rectangle modes.
The macro evil-define-key allows you to bind to key maps in evil style.
(evil-define-key 'normal key-map-name "key" 'function)
Also you can add binding to the evil global map,
(evil-global-set-key 'normal "key" 'function)
You may like this hydra for use with rectangle-mark-mode, which will work in a similar way to evil / vim.
http://oremacs.com/2015/02/25/rectangle-hydra/
I'd recommend you play with the different rectangle modes and decide which one you like best, and then make the key map bindings as you need them / see fit. There's also https://github.com/zk-phi/phi-rectangle - Personally I use CUA Rectangle mode, it has a lot of features, although I think navigational bindings are a bit strange/inconsistent.
It's also up to you how you decide to invoke whichever rectangle mode, one option I think makes sense is to have it available in the Visual mode map.
evil-move-cursor-backorevil-move-beyond-eol? – wasamasa Aug 15 '15 at 18:02evil-move-beyond-eolonly lets you move one character past eol. :/ – PythonNut Aug 15 '15 at 18:03set = virtualedit=block(which in vim does exactly you are asking) but I was not able to implement. So the only option is to switch to Emacs state and use rectangle-mark-mode as you already stated. – Enrico Pirani Aug 15 '15 at 18:29rectangle-mark-modeto do the right thing) this is possible to do by adding acursorproperty with a number indicating the place where the cursor should be inside the string used asafter-stringfor the overlay making up the final line of the rectangle. – wasamasa Jan 20 '16 at 10:30