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

Answer 1

If you're using Nedit under Cygwin-X (or any platform for that matter), hold down the Ctrl key while selecting text with the left mouse.

Additionally, you can then drag the selected "box" around in an insert mode using the depressed left-mouse button or in overwrite mode by using Ctrl+left-mouse button.

Answer 2

With Nedit you can do several operations with selected column:

CTRL+LEFT-MOUSE -> Mark Rectangular Text-Area

MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in area -> moving text area with pushing aside other text

CTRL+MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in marked area -> moving text area with overriding aside text and deleting text from original position

CTRL+SHIFT+MIDDLE-MOUSE pressed in marked area -> copying text area with overriding aside text and keeping text from original position

Answer 3

In TextMate with the mouse: start a selection and keep alt pressed while you move the cursor.

Without the mouse: first select normally using ⇧ and arrows then hit alt and move the cursor.

Answer 4

In Netbeans 7.1 can select columns (Rectangular Selection) with Ctrl + shift + R . There is also a button in the code editor available.

This is how rectangular selections look like:

Answer 5

SublimeText 2

Using the Mouse

Different mouse buttons are used on each platform:

OS X

Left Mouse Button + Option
OR: Middle Mouse Button
Add to selection: Command
Subtract from selection: Command+Shift

Windows

Right Mouse Button + Shift
OR: Middle Mouse Button
Add to selection: Ctrl
Subtract from selection: Alt

Linux

Right Mouse Button + Shift
Add to selection: Ctrl
Subtract from selection: Alt

Using the Keyboard

OS X

ctrl + shift + ↑

ctrl + shift + ↓

Windows

ctrl + alt + ↑

ctrl + alt + ↓

Linux

ctrl + alt + ↑

ctrl + alt + ↓

Source: SublimeText2 Documentation

Answer 6

In Sublime3 (Windows):

Some users may get an inverted screen using the Ctrl+Alt+▲ in windows. To Solve this go to

Preferences->Key Bindings-User

And add these two lines at the end of the file just before closing brackets:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+pageup"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} },

{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+pagedown"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} } 

Or use your own keys.