Dear JEdit team,

working a lot with JEdit using block copy and paste i miss a very useful feature, some other editors offer. So at the moment it's hard for me to change to JEdit completely even though i wish to do this.

With JEdit we need to select a block using the ctrl-key, count the number of the selected lines in the block, select the same number of lines in the target area and insert the block (ctrl-v). This is very hard for large blocks with many lines, expecially because the statusline does not show the number of the selected lines.

It would be very useful to be able to paste the selected block into the target area only by setting the cursor to the upper left corner of the target and pressing ctrl-v.

An example to show my problem:
Assume the block of 'X' should be copied between 'c' and 'd' (should be read with fixed font)

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccdddeee
aXXXa f
aXXXa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

The intuitive way is to select the block of 'X', press ctrl-c, move the cursor between 'c' and 'd' and press crtl-v to get

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccXXXdddeee
aXXXa f XXX
aXXXa gggXXXhhhiii
aXXXa jjjjjjjjj

At the moment the above procedure leads to

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
axxxa cccXXX
XXX
XXXdddeee
axxxa f
axxxa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

I hope you agree with my request. Is there a possibility to implement this?

I appreciate your great work coding one of the best editors found in the net.
Thanks you all.

Yours
Hans Bauer