id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
1108,Rectangular editing / column mode / vertical selection / box selection,szabgab,,"This came up several times and searching trac I found several comments and did a little research what other editors provide.

For example see this link:

http://dave.thehorners.com/tech-talk/programming/227-rectangular-selection-or-column-mode-the-best-text-editor-feature-ever

Features:
* allow the easy selection of a rectangular area of the code event if it has 0 width.
* allow copying from that area
* allow typing in code once and repeating in every selected row
* allow making some changes once and repeating it in every selected row


Padre status:  r13695 (version 0.81)

Currently when I try it on my Ubuntu 10.10
* Ctrl-Alt-Mousdrag allows rectangular selection but
* Ctrl-Alt-Right (or Left) just switch viewspace. I guess the windowing system overrides the keys in Padre?

* Shift-Alt-Mousedrag and Shift-Alt-Right (Left, Up, Down)  allow me to do rectangular selection. I can copy from the rectangular or I can just delete it but that's it.
* I could NOT select a 0-width selection or add the same text to several lines at the same time.

so the feature request would be to
* Implement the other features listed above
* Make it easy for people to find the key combination eg. by adding an empty menu option that just explains what this key binding does.
",enhancement,new,major,,editor,0.80,,,