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Bug 58644 - select a vertical block of text
Summary: select a vertical block of text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13857
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formatting & Indentation (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: gorazd_praprotn
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Reported: 2005-05-06 10:54 UTC by gorazd_praprotn
Modified: 2007-11-05 13:39 UTC (History)
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Description gorazd_praprotn 2005-05-06 10:54:54 UTC 
I think that vertical text selection is one of the most importatant options in
editors for programming. With such option you can quckly copy colums of code or
some data and you can save a lot of time.
Example:

With some key combination (Alt, Control) start moving mouse over text cross more
  lines:

xxxxxxxxxx#####xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx#####xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx#####xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx#####xxxxxxxxx 

Copy selected vertical block and paste:

#####
#####
#####
#####

Gorazd
Comment 1 Miloslav Metelka 2005-05-06 14:47:32 UTC 
Already reported as issue 13857. Thanks for the report.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 13857 ***