MikePSPad: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you very much for your explanation and your suggestion *myf*.
Do you know of a plugin that can do "column insert/replace" as well? I like that PSPad can do "column select/cut" but it's too bad I can't do "column insert". Thanks, Mike. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, there is probably no possibility for column editing in the sense, that you select multiple lines at a given column and type some text simultaneously to these lines. However, there is Edit: Lines manipulation: Insert text into lines (Alt+I) which can insert text at the beginning, end or a given column of multiple lines. The dialog item: "Before character number lets" you set the column where to insert the text (from the lines begin); there is even a hint with the current cursor position, if you click on this number, it is set as a column value for the insertion. If you can formulate your insert as replace, you can use search and replace function on a previously selected column area. e.g.: column-select the 25 column: 1_25_67 1_25_67 1_25_67 replace: 25 with 2345 scope: (x) selected text - gives: 1234567 1234567 1234567 (However, for some reason, this doesn't seem to work with regular expressions, which would enable some wider possibilities.) (For what is it worth, my older, rather user-unfriendly script http://www.vbr.wz.cz/pspad/poor-man-s-REplace.html also allows replacement of the column selection like this: a_bc_d e_fg_h i_jk_l ab-cd ef-gh ij-kl using the pattern /(.)(.)/g, "$1-$2" for regex replace. However, use at your own risk, as there can be problems with larger text portions, unicode handling, linends etc. in the javascript interface.) hth, vbr -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,58219,58283> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
