| 3 | | * Rectangular selection |
| 4 | | * press Shift and Alt keys together while selecting with the mouse or the arrow keys |
| | 3 | Simple text editors usually only allow you to select contiguous lines of text with your mouse. |
| | 4 | Sometimes, however, it is handy to be able to select a rectangular area of text for more precise |
| | 5 | cutting/copying/pasting or performing search/replace on. You can select a rectangular area in Padre |
| | 6 | by holding down '''Shift+Alt''' whilst selecting text with your mouse or the arrow keys. |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | For example, imagine you have the following nicely formatted hash assignment in a Perl source file: |
| | 9 | {{{ |
| | 10 | my %hash = ( |
| | 11 | key1 => 'value1', |
| | 12 | key2 => 'value2', |
| | 13 | key3 => 'value3', |
| | 14 | ); |
| | 15 | }}} |
| | 16 | With a rectangular text selection you can select only the keys, only the values, etc.. |
