How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, Textpad,etc) and IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc)

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Sajad Bahmani picture Sajad Bahmani · Nov 26, 2009 · Viewed 256.5k times · Source

How to select columns in Editors and IDEs to columnar delete, insert or replace some characters ?

Editors:

  • Atom
  • Notepad++
  • Kate
  • VIM
  • Sublime
  • Emacs
  • Textpad
  • Emerald Editor
  • UltraEdit
  • MCEdit
  • jEdit
  • Nedit

IDEs:

  • NetBeans
  • Eclipse
  • Visual Studio
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Flash Builder
  • Aptana Studio

Answer

Alex Budovski picture Alex Budovski · Nov 26, 2009
  • Notepad++, Visual Studio, and some others: Alt + drag.
  • vim: Ctrl + v or (bizarrely enough) Quad-click-drag. In windows: Ctrl + Q (since Ctrl + V is the standard for paste)

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