Column
Mode editing
A
special way of editing files is using column editing. This means that
text can be selected in columns, rather than rows (effectively
meaning 'vertical editing'). The column editing support is done via
Scintilla, but with a few supplements of Notepad++. To initiate a
Column mode selection, depress the Alt key (default) when selecting
text (using mouse or cursor keys), moving the cursor downwards or
upwards as needed. This works best if a non-proportional (monospaced)
font is used, because then each character will be aligned with the
ones above and below it (refer to Styler Configurator for more
information).
When
selected as a column, overwriting the text will change each selected
character into the typed character.
The
Column Editor dialog is designed to make working with columns easier.
It can be opened by selecting .
There
are two types of insertions that the column editor supports, regular
text or number sequences. By selecting the Text to insert option, it
will overwrite each selected row with the given text. The Number to insert option will change each selected row into a numeric value,
depending on the parameters given. The Initial number is the first
number to be inserted. The Increase by value gives the value by which
each consecutive number will increase. If the Leading zeros option is
checked, smaller values will be padded with zeros to make them the
same size as larger values, character wise. Finally, you can choose
which radix to use for numbers (Format), default is Decimal (10 base).