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in thread A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.

I'm still pretty unfamiliar with your editor, but I think the "alt-key" is not what I mean.

Think of a block of text like this:

a1b2c1d1e1
a2b2c2d2e2
a3b3c3d3e3

I want to be able to make a selection like:

c1
c2
c3

No matter what is in the columns selected. Does this help you to understand?

BTW your English is much better than my German!
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Re^4: A lovely (soon crossplatform) Perl editor.
by sir_lichtkind (Friar) on Jun 21, 2005 at 20:58 UTC
    thanks i hear it frequently, by english is clearly selfeducated by \.

    This sounds for me exactly like rectangular selection. this will be in next release possible with keyboard too(hold alt+shift) but currently you should like i suggested hold Alt-Button and select this area with the mouse. than you can tread it like normal selection cut or copy or move by mouse. only the insertion isnt still perfect. it creates new lines and cant insert it in other lines but that feature will come too due its one of the fovourite of our designer.

    please feel always free for suggesttions etc. thanks
      Thanks. Yes I suspect "rectangular selection" == "column copy".

      You obviously have good support for Perl, are you (or do you plan on) supporting other languages? Also is there (or will there be) support for assigning your own keystrokes to functions?
        changeable keymap is scheduled for version 0.3.8, see our roadmap, and to the other question .. well currently we have support for 27 languages, and will become much more. but thats only highlight you mean in future with outocompletition and the other stuff that will come soon. well, i would like to support as much languages as possible, but i do first to help myself out. but everything will be written configable so that python fans can easyly create an python mode my witing an text files with some keywords sttings and rules they wish. thats the way it was planned from the start but for myself need only perl, HTML, CSS, and conf maybe YAML later. Its a long road to go.
        Argument "rectangular selection" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==). Argument "column copy" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==).
        ;-)


        holli, /regexed monk/