Bug 94784

Summary:	NEW FEATURE: Column Edit Mode like UltraEdit has
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Wolfram Wagner <wolfram.wagner>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	opensource
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Wolfram Wagner 2004-12-10 06:40:53 UTC

Version:           2.3.2 (using KDE 3.3.2 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.111.5-default

In UltraEdit (the best text editor available) there is an incredible usefull feature, if you have to edit list: Column edit more.

You can select blocks constrained by columns (starting at position x1,y1 to x2,y2) and overwrite or delete the block.

Wolfram

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2004-12-10 12:08:25 UTC

Edit/Block Selection Mode?

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2004-12-10 12:19:24 UTC

Partially, I believe the user also wants the ability to type into several lines at the same time. But the description is not clear...

Comment 3 Wolfram Wagner 2004-12-10 18:36:01 UTC

The block selection mode is almost what I meant.I miss the possibility to enter the same typed characters into all selected lines, replacing the selection, and if I select a zero width block, insert something simultanously into all selected lines.
This would be very usefull if you have a formated text file, e.g. a data sheet and  if you cannot use Search and Replace because you have no unique search string or to many data for find, find, replace, find, find, replace

Comment 4 Tom 2005-09-29 00:40:29 UTC

Yes, I would definitely love this feature.
The only reason I am using Ultraedit still. Any prospects on adding this feature?

Comment 5 Mathieu Jobin 2005-12-01 17:23:42 UTC

please

Comment 6 Mathieu Jobin 2005-12-01 17:27:09 UTC

there I something I don't like in ultraedit column editing and kate could do better.

in ultraedit column editing, typing does not overwrite selection. while I think it should.

Comment 7 Mathieu Jobin 2005-12-01 17:29:47 UTC

finally found the other bug.
this one is a duplicate of bug #56935

Comment 8 Dominik Haumann 2006-05-03 22:55:26 UTC

it is a duplicate report, as Mathieu said :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56935 ***