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shifting a block of text
Submitted by 999alfred on Friday, 25 March, 2011 - 04:48
Is it possible to "shift" a rectangular block of text?
What I mean is I select a rectangle start at say column 20 and running to column 30 and encompasses 20 lines and then I want to move it two tabs right, hit tab twice. Now If I try this my text is deleted. If I 'cut' the text, tab over and paste it puts the first line there, but all the descending lines are placed at the left edge and all the text originally between the text and the left margin is moved below the pasted test.

How do I all of it tab'ed over and not delete my text? Is it possible?

tj
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by Robert Schwenn on Fri, 25/03/2011 - 21:13
Two options:

1. If You want to insert a cut rectangle You have to select the target rectangle which must encompass the same number of lines to get desired results, but can be of any width - even zero width!

2. Select a rectangle of zero width ("column cursor") just before the text to shift. Then, every characters (or tabs) You type are inserted before the "column cursor"...

Robert
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