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Keyboard-only use of block/column mode in different text editors (Geany, Visual Studio, UltraEdit, Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, Vim, and Emacs)

By Peter Mortensen Posted on 2020-12-31 Posted in Applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Geany, UltraEdit, etc.), Linux, Text editors, Windows No Comments

Although it is often somewhat hidden, most text editors, except for the most basic ones, have a column mode (also known as block mode or visual mode) – to work on rectangular selections of text (including a width of zero). …

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