2009/9/6 Heiko Studt <[email protected]>:
> Am 06.09.2009 schrieb Lex Trotman:
>
>> Its called rectangular selection and is mentioned in several places in
>> the manual.  How would you improve it?
>
> Without looking myself, I suggest to refer "block selection" to that
> page. AFAIK many editors call it that way.

Probably best to refer to it as both, eg

...rectangular selection (also known as block selection in other editors)...

I'll put it on the todo list for some work I'm doing on the manual.

>
> In Context this is a "selection mode" available with strg+l, this
> has the advantage, that you can use cursors and "see" what you are
> selecting. It can help for checking indentation of big methods
> (though you do not want such methods anyway... ;-))

But sometimes such methods are needed  ;-) but then Geany's indenting
makes it pretty easy to get right.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Mmmh, I do not use the future very often, but then it is handy. :-)
>
>
> MFG
> Heiko Studt
>
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