Yes, I found that link about Sublime Text, too. Here is my summary.
Sublime Text
- Shift-Left will give you "column selection" mode --
even if you have reset the primary mouse button from right to left hand
(which is a bit irritating).
- Select a block of text and press Control-Shift-L, this will also provide
parallel editing on all lines of the selection.
Atom Editor
All this does *not* work in Atom, at least not for me. Instead:
- The command "select lines" is what I wanted. I could even bind it to
the key maps Alt-Shift-up resp. Alt-Shift-down. Nice and helpful.
Light Table
- Using Control-Space and then in the command tab (Control-Space)
"Editor: Select lines upward/downward with multiple cursors".
Unfortunately, the command tab closes when clicking a command (How can
I avoid this?). I have to learn how to assign a key combination to it.
Gedit
- The gedit plugin "multi edit" needs to be loaded. Enter/leave this mode
with Control-Shift-C. Then edit points will be inserted with Control-E
at quite different places in the file.
Kate
- Block selection mode will be enabled with Control-Shift-B. The a block
region will be selected with the mouse.
Conclusion: It's not recommended to use too many editor, otherwise the
different key mappings will drive you crazy.
Sorry to all for so much fuss about a tiny editing feature.
On Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:06:05 AM UTC+1, Mike Innes wrote:
>
> Ah ok, well this
> <https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/column_selection.html> page says you
> can use Shift + Right drag on Linux for Sublime. Atom is probably the same
> but I don't know for sure about LT.
>
> On 30 November 2014 at 05:49, Hans W Borchers <hwbor...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Mike, but in Linux ALT will drag the whole window, not the cursor.
>>
>> On Saturday, November 29, 2014 4:30:05 PM UTC+1, Mike Innes wrote:
>>
>>> (PS Hans: You can do block selection in LT by dragging with the alt key)
>>>
>>>
>
