On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Zach Bethel wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm a python IDLE user, and I've got a simple feature request. I don't know > what you use to implement the text editor, but one thing it would be really > nice to do is hold the ALT key, click and drag, and be able to select a > rectangle of text. If that doesn't make any sense, I attached an image > depicting what I'm talking about. Since Python is a tab based language, it > only makes sense that I would be able to select code this way. Anyway, just > thought I would share. > > Thanks, > Zach.
What would be the purpose of rectangular selections? Other than to cut/copy/paste/delete indentation, I can't think of any use cases. IDLE already provides utilities specifically for handling indentation, such as increasing/decreasing the indentation of a region (several selected lines) and tabs/spaces conversion, which are accessible via the "format" menu. _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
