Not Block Selection mode but "real" Column Mode. where you can draw a vertical line between characters on multiple lines and press the space bar and you'll have a space on every line. You can't do this with TextPad without being destructive to at least one character per line.
For example like the Column Mode on Crimson Editor or MadEdit...
Column Mode
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Notepad++ (or other scintilla editors) block-insert mode
I had to use Notepad++ for a bit after starting a new job. It's ok, I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, but...
Thankfully, my new employers let me have TextPad, but it took a while (partly owing to COVID-19).
I sort of miss the colour-highlight of matching words, but I'm happy with my INCL tool that I've used for years (which can be found in the addons > utilities! - bugs included for free).
But I do miss the feature similar to TP's block-select, whereby you click-drag the cursor over multiple lines (whether 0, 1 or multi columns), and then any typing is effected on each line that the cursor covers.
I'm a bit surprised more people haven't asked for that feature.
@Helios: Any chance?
Thanks,
Clark/Cloink
Thankfully, my new employers let me have TextPad, but it took a while (partly owing to COVID-19).
I sort of miss the colour-highlight of matching words, but I'm happy with my INCL tool that I've used for years (which can be found in the addons > utilities! - bugs included for free).
But I do miss the feature similar to TP's block-select, whereby you click-drag the cursor over multiple lines (whether 0, 1 or multi columns), and then any typing is effected on each line that the cursor covers.
I'm a bit surprised more people haven't asked for that feature.
@Helios: Any chance?
Thanks,
Clark/Cloink