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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
