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Eclipse/CDT is wonderful, but it misses one important editing feature that was available in previous professional editors such as Brief, CodeWright, etc. That missing feature is the "column select" wherein dragging the mouse with the "right-button" down selects characters in a rectangle or box. When saved to the clipboard, this rectangle of characters can be inserted anywhere in the source file and it merely displaces characters "to the right" to make room for the insert. For example, here are some nonsense source lines: WWW0123456789XXXX WWWThe ChimesYYYY WWWof FreedomZZZZ WWWFlashing!!QQQQ WWW0123456789RRRR WWW0123456789SSSS ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ I can drag a rectangle around "The Chimes of Freedom!!" above and insert it into the text below it; it merely displaces characters to the right to make the inserted text fit. WWW0123456789XXXX WWWThe ChimesYYYY WWWof FreedomZZZZ WWWFlashing!!QQQQ WWW0123456789RRRR WWW0123456789SSSS ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLThe ChimesMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLof FreedomMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLFlashing!!MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ There is a "Column Copy/Paste" plugin from SourceForge, but it doesn't do this operation; certainly not with a simple mouse drag-and-drop. I'm amazed that the Eclipse/CDT developers missed this one. Cheers, Jim Lynch
You are indeed not the first one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19771 ***
