Eclipse: Can you put your cursor on all lines?

Question

In IDEA you had the possibility to put your cursor on all lines.

Is this possible in Eclipse?

Answer 1

If you refer to the ability to select a group of lines (like a all function), you can use the outline view

alt text http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/radhelp/v7r5/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/whatsNew/images/drag-and-drop-outline.png

From there, you can move/rearrange/delete all block of text.

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If it is about column mode, see my answer here.

alt text http://update.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/images/block-selection-mode.png

Answer 2

Eclipse 3.5 should have a column mode (which is what I think you're asking about) - use Alt+Shift+A:

• http://update.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/eclipse-news-part1.html#Text

I haven't tried this since I'm stuck at version 3.4.1 for the time being. There's a patch that claims to work for 3.4.0 (http://tkilla.ch/column_mode/), but it's not working for my 3.4.1 install.