mulitple highlight/select/copy/paste

[toddmarshall2002]

I was trying to read a complex file, and was wishing to be able to select multiple items simultaneously.

If you had, say, 10 (any number) selections on the document at one time, you could copy them all with one command. This acts like a kind of manual filter.

You could also paste say one clip to multiple selections, or multiple to multiple, repeating the paste iterated until all the selections are changed.

This could be done without any notice to users, but the ability added turned on/off, or a simple addition to un-select one of the selections.
I.E. I think any addition can have minimal code-bloat negatives, if well designed.
Todd.

[tygrus78]

I'll add my vote.

This might be similar to 'Spike' in MS Word (which is a little haphazard). You could use the internal TextPad clipboard to save multiple snippets and allow the user to paste the group in one hit.
It's also a similar idea to MS Excel where you can select random cells/rows/coulmns editing but Excel limitations can stop you copy-paste and a few other things.

[MudGuard]

You know that Ctrl-Shift-C adds to the Clipboard?

I.E.: select your first part, press Ctrl-C.
Select your second part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.
Select your third part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.
...
Select your last part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.

Move to wherever you want to paste.

Press Ctrl-V.

All the parts should be pasted.

[Xennon]

In what OS does this work? .. I tried it in XP sp2 and all I got after the final Ctrl-V was my first Ctrl-C. All in between Shift-Ctrl-C's didn't register.

You know that Ctrl-Shift-C adds to the Clipboard?

I.E.: select your first part, press Ctrl-C.
Select your second part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.
Select your third part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.
...
Select your last part, press Shift-Ctrl-C.

Move to wherever you want to paste.

Press Ctrl-V.

All the parts should be pasted.

[MudGuard]

In what OS does this work?

It's not an OS functionality, it's a Textpad functionality.

It works in Textpad at home (Win2K) and in my company (Win98, Win2K, WinXP)

If it does not (yet) work in your Textpad, assign Ctrl-Shift-X to EditCutAppend and Ctrl-Shift-C to EditCopyAppend

[Xennon]

Ahha - Thankyou for that. From your post it was not clear that this was TP specific. It would be nice to have it as a standard PS feature as well though.

In what OS does this work?

It's not an OS functionality, it's a Textpad functionality.

It works in Textpad at home (Win2K) and in my company (Win98, Win2K, WinXP)

If it does not (yet) work in your Textpad, assign Ctrl-Shift-X to EditCutAppend and Ctrl-Shift-C to EditCopyAppend