[platform-text-dev] Columnar Selection

["John Bridges" <John.Bridges@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any planning for columnar selection in the editor toolkit ?

Clarification: Columnar selection is the ability to select a rectangular
area of the text editor i.e. if the selection starts on column 10, row 5 and
ends on column 50, row 50 only text within the area defined by  the
rectangle (10, 5), (50,50) will be selected.

When I was using Codewright full-time this was one of my most commonly used
selection modes and it would be great to have this within Eclipse

Regards

John