Re: Rectangular blocks in MP (was Re: screen painting bug, GTK)

Angel Ortega wrote:
> Eric said:
>
>> I've included a patch for MP 5.0.2 to add vertical cut/copy/paste. This
>> allow the user to select text in rectangular blocks, and use the standard
>> editing functions on that block. This is patterned on similar functionality
>> in SlickEdit, Vim and many other editors.
>>
>> Press CTRL-B to enter vertical selection mode, and move the cursor to mark
>> the selection rectngle. The existing edit functions (copy, cut, paste) will
>> behave as expected with the highlighted text. Text added to the clipboard
>> from external applications are used with normal selection mode.
>>
>
> It seems to work very well; I beg all of you to try it.
>
Indeed. Thanks Eric! I was hoping to have this sometime soon.

Jeremy

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