Block selecting is brilliant if you can indent in and out, multiple lines at the same time. Visual Studio does it, Textpad does it, and probably others. But hey, it's just a feature request.

Note, even tabbing single lines seems a little odd to me:

If I go to the middle of a line and hit tab, it indents the remainder of the line. If I hit shift tab, it un-indents the *entire line*, which is counter-intuitive for me.

I’m starting to use jEdit for everything. It really is excellent.

In jEdit if you "block" select, meaning you just drag and select multiple lines. Hitting tab, or shift+tab will indent or unindent respectively.

Block Selection: http://www.idc-productions.com/images/block_selection.png

However, jEdit has a featured called Rectangular Selection (shortcut is usually alt+\), if you use that to select a "block" of text, and hit tab it'll replace that text with the tab. If you're in rectangular selection mode, an 'R' will appear in the lower right hand corner of the editor.

Rectangular Selection: http://www.idc-productions.com/images/rect_selection.png

Make sure you don't have rectangular selection on.

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Hi, thank you very much for commenting.

The feature I'm requesting is to be able to indent/unindent rectangular selected blocks. The editors I'm used to using as I've mentioned above all support manipulating a rectangular selected block.

For example, say you have a table like so:

s_people [] = {
{ "Trent", 37, FRIEND },
{ "Doug", 30, ENEMY },
{ "Tammy", 55, RULER },
};

Quite often I find myself wanting to add new columns, wanting to indent columns, remove columns... all this becomes easy with rectangular block selection, copying, pasting, and intelligent indenting. None of this works in Jedit. If I select the number column above and hit tab, the entire {...} portion indents.

Anyway, it's just a feature request.

Cheers.

Yes, you should definitely be able to do this. I do it all the time, using Rectangular Selection.

http://www.idc-productions.com/images/rect_selection.mov
(Sorry for the demo words)

Rectangular Selection acts like it would when editing a single selection, only it happens across the multiple lines.

At the end there, I had selected a single column across 3 lines, when I hit tab it put a tab at that position on all 3 lines. I then just hit backspace and it deleted a tab each time across each line.

If I had selected text across the 3 lines, it would have replaced the text with the tab, just like you'd expect it to if you had just selected some text in the middle of the a single line.

Rectangular selection should do what you want, but it may not do it in quite the same way you're used to, this always happens when you switch tools.

Hope that helps.


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That's about the coolest thing I've seen this month. (Do I sound like a geek or what?)

Thanks so much for clarifying. I never thought to not select any text before trying to tab(like you've demonstrated). Awesome! And the way you can type text in multiple lines simultaneously is pretty darn cool too!

I official retract this feature request!

You're welcome.

You mean your previous tool doesn't have the ability to type across multiple lines?? hehe

Glad I could help, happy j-editing!

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Have you tried Edit>More Selection>Rectangular Selection?

Hello !!!!

I want to know more of all this. It´s incredible , but I dont know much more. Please help me with links and info

Thanks a lot

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