Select subset of characters in many lines (column selection) in Eclipse/Android Studio

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Wojciech Jakubas picture Wojciech Jakubas · Jun 22, 2014 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

How to select subset of characters in many lines (column selection) in Eclipse/Android Studio? Ideally without plugins. Shift+Alt+A seems not to be working for me either.

In Notepad++ you can do it with Shift+Alt+(Arrows) or Alt+Left_Mouse (and drag to select)

Please see example below (Column selection I'm after):

Example
(source: softwareninjaneer.com)

Visual Studio and many other tools support it.

Thanks

Answer

Joanne Chow picture Joanne Chow · Oct 3, 2014

I use android studio. You can switch between selection mode by:
alt-shift-insert, or Edit -> Column selection mode.

source.

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