I am very happy to see the box-editing feature (text changes applies to every line selected by the user) in the latest alpha version, but I think the functionality is not good enough. It's better for the editor to stay in box-editing mode unless user press up or down cursor or escape key; that means backspace should delete one character, not all the whole changes made since box-editing began and ctrl-z should not cancel box-editing mode. The power column mode in Boxer text editor is really good (I think it's better than ultraedit) and maybe you can take it as an example.

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In Version 8.00 beta 1, Undo and Backspace will not cancel the Vertical Selection mode (box mode). Thanks!

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Yutaka Emura
Developer of EmEditor
http://www.emeditor.com/

Bravo! You do the job very well! How about persisting box-editing mode when the user presses LEFT or RIGHT key? If the user presses LEFT or RIGHT, just move the vertical selection(grey vertical line) to the new position. I don't know how useful this will be to the others, but this saves a lot of time when editing a highly sturctured text file, like verilog or VHDL. I'm a verilog coder and I like every text editor to have this function.

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I would also like to be able
to move the zero-width vertical selection ( | )
with the left/right arrow keys
to modify several columns
without the need to do an selection again and again.


One,| Two= Three.
One,| Two= Three.
One,| Two= Three.

One Two=| Three.
One Two=| Three.
One Two=| Three.

One Two Three.|
One Two Three.|
One Two Three.|

One Two Three
One Two Three
One Two Three


Would be nice if even Pos1- and End-keys would be working
and move the vertical selection to begin or end of the line.
Where i then can use the arrow keys to move the vertical selection.

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Improved Vertical Selection Editing:

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Nice and useful feature!
But how can make an vertical selection at the right
without getting this new effect?
IOW: how can i add vertical align text to the right as before?

Never mind. Found it:
Make an normal vertical column block selection (Ctrl+Shift+F8)



Thank you.

If you will implement this improvement (Arrow and Home/End keys can move vertical line)
for the zero-width selection mode...

...then i have an another suggestion to make the creating
of that vertical selection line more easy (for handicapped users)

- make an normal line selection
- press an hotkey like Ctrl+Shift+L (or use an menu command) to switch to zero-width selection mode

That way there is an zero-width selection created at pos. 0 on all before selected lines.

Now we can use the arrow or end -key to move the vertical line.



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Hi Yutaka,

did you have found some time to look into this issue?

Can this feature become improved please?


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Hello,

This will be possible on v13. The new Switch Starting Point and Ending Point command (SHIFT + F8) will allow you to move the cursor position to the starting point, and move the starting positions by SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT keys.

Thanks!

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Yutaka Emura
Developer of EmEditor
http://www.emeditor.com/

 

"Switch Starting Point and Ending Point command (SHIFT+F8)"

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Thank you Yutaka, please let me try:


That shortcuts is not "registered" in the beta download.
Luckily we have "Help > Keyboard Map... "
Or now tThe new Quick Launch command)
Just search for 'point' and add Shift+F8 as shortcut.


To let it work you have to make a selection first,
than you can switch the current working point
by pressing (SHIFT+F8)


For example, if you had done a selection to the left,
pressing (SHIFT+F8) will move the working point (Me means the zero-width selection line)
to the right side of this selection.

Try:

- make a zero-width selection first.
- hold Shift and press L/R arrow keys
  to create an selection, even one column will do.
- press (SHIFT+F8)
- hold Shift and press L/R arrow keys,
  now you can resize the selection from
  the other end of that selection.



Nifty to move to the wanted column:
- make a zero-width selection somewhere near the wanted column.
- hold Shift and press L/R arrow keys to create an
  selection till to the wanted column.
- press (SHIFT+F8)
- hold Shift and press L/R arrow keys, now resize the
  selection till you get a zero-width selection again.


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This will work at start of line or in the middle,
but not at the end of line (?).
At the end of line I can't make a selection to the left.

I also can't move the working point (the zero-width selection line)
anymore after I have typed something,
i.e. you can't move the zero-width selection from column
to column to do several modifications.

But that was what I have tried to suggest above.
Or did I miss something here?

I think it would work as I suggested if not this would happen:
>> "I also can't move the working point anymore after I have typed something, "


But after I typed something I can't move the working point to another column.

OK, it's because we are still in editing mode.
Pressing (SHIFT+F8) don't help here anymore


More on this if I may?

* Backspace, to delete to the left, works on EOL only,
not in the middle of the line.

* Del, to delete to the right, works nowhere with
an zero-width selection only.

For both we can do a selection to the left or right first, and then press Del to remove the signs.


Here I found an example of this zero-width selection moving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz1NoXnjzPo
Maybe that video can better explain what I had in mind

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Hi Yutaka,

I see no response from you?


Are you able to improve the zero-width column manipulation?

Should I provide better explanation or demo videos?


Stefan