Summary: | [block selection] Modifier + drag to perform rectangular selection | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Timothy Mowlem <tmowlem> |
Component: | Text | Assignee: | Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox> |
Status: | ASSIGNED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 | CC: | daniel_megert, eclipse, misc, reckord, stephen_m_bennett |
Version: | 3.5 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Description
Timothy Mowlem
2010-09-24 04:33:09 EDT
You can use Alt+Shift+A or assign your own key binding to 'Toggle Block Selection' command. A hotkey has a similar workflow issue with clicking a toolbar button: turning it on and off add steps that slow down text editing. Compare with Notepad++ (which uses Scintilla) where alt+drag with the mouse or shift+alt+arrow with the keyboard makes it very fast and efficient to make a block selection. The dedicated block selection mode is still useful, but being able to make block selections without entering the mode is also very convenient. Enabling block selection without entering a dedicated mode is slightly different when pasting. I propose to remember the type of selection when copied (block or normal) then use that same type when pasting. Similarly SlickEdit has right-click drag for block selection and allows block pasting of content copied by that method (as suggested by Nathan). This is slightly more optimal from a workflow perspective and existing shift+arrow block-edit mode compatibility would be a bonus. |