Block highlighting of text - was Locking directory panes while cd'ing
Keith Roberts
keith at karsites.net
Thu Oct 18 14:30:47 UTC 2007
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:
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> Also here is another suggestion, for the editor:
>
> Is the Shift-Tab command taken in the editor? If
> not, it would be useful to be able to indent a block of
> text by highlighting the block and then doing Shift-Tab,
> would it not? Or is there already a way to indent a
> highlighted block and I am unaware of it?
>
> Theodore Kilgore
At the moment the editor supports selecting text by range or
line, depending on where you start and end your selection
with the F3 key.
I would also like to be able to select an arbitrary size
block of text to copy, move or delete.
Eg. placing the cursor at line 1, column 1, then selecting
'block mode', then pressing F3 to start the selection, then
moving the cursor to another place in the text (say line 15,
column 20) and pressing F3 again, to mark out the bottom
right hand corner of a block of text. So in this example a
block of text starting at line 1, column 1 and ending at
line 15, column 20 would be selected and highlighted.
So in block selection mode, the cursor should not select
text any farther to the right of the actual current cursor
position - even when making a selection over several lines
of text.
This should then hightlight that block for copying,
moving or deleting.
Maybe the editor could allow one to choose between
'select range', or 'select block', before pressing the F3
key to start the selection?
So really what we need is the ability to select text by
columns of varying width and height, which equates to a
block of text.
Then being able to copy, move or delete those columns from
the text with the F5-copy, F6-move or F8-delete function
keys?
This functionality would then allow one to copy, move or
delete text by columns of varying sizes, which would be
very usefull IMHO.
Kind Regards
Keith Roberts
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