Padre Features

Rectangular Text Selection

Simple text editors usually only allow you to select contiguous lines of text with your mouse. Sometimes, however, it is handy to be able to select a rectangular area of text for more precise cutting/copying/pasting or performing search/replace on. You can select a rectangular area in Padre by holding down '''Shift+Alt''' whilst selecting text with your mouse or the arrow keys.

For example, imagine you have the following nicely formatted hash assignment in a Perl source file:

  my %hash = (
      key1 => 'value1',
      key2 => 'value2',
      key3 => 'value3',
 );

With a rectangular text selection you can select only the keys, only the values, etc..