On Sep 17, 4:10 am, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> > On Sep 15, 2011, at 16:01, VA wrote:
> >> Coming from the UltraEdit world, I tried rectangular selecting lines and 
> >> inserting characters at the beginning of each of the lines by just typing 
> >> it (without using Prefix/Suffix Lines).
>
> > I like UltraEdit on the PC but not so much on the Mac.
>
> > That feature could be useful, but I'd be surprised to see it materialize in 
> > BBEdit - especially since prefix lines exists and can be bound to a 
> > keyboard shortcut.  But you never know.
>
> TextMate does this as well.  I'm not sure how many people need it though. 
> Can't say I've ever used it in TextMate.   As you say prefix lines does the 
> same thing. Although admittedly it is quicker to option-select and type.


Coming from TextMate I was surprised how in-grained this behaviour was
for me. I certainly miss it, and far more useful than prefix/suffix,
in addition, is being able to column-edit in the *middle* of a number
of lines.

Will

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