Block selection and multi-cursor editing?

[plan44]

Hello, are there any plans to support rectangular block selection and multi-line simultaneous editing like in XCode? Or even non-contiguous multi-cursor like in VSCode? I find myself copy&pasting text from various sources to XCode and back just to do multi-line editing, because often for a tabular snippet it is the most efficient method to "convert" it to a slightly different form, before having to figure out a regex.

With non-contiguous selection removed from TextEdit recently, I am not sure if the macOS text system still allows supporting this with a reasonable amount of effort, but I hope so ;-)

[thecoolwinter]

Yes we will be supporting those types of interactions. We already support very basic multi-cursor interactions. You can use (Shift-Option Click) to add a new cursor. We'll continue to add more interactions in the CodeEditTextView repository

[plan44]

Great!

It's Ctrl-Shift, though as I learnt from here, and also learnt that it is the same in XCode 😃 So far, I only knew Option-Drag to create multiple cursors, which is missing at the moment, as is Cmd-Opt-E. But no hurry, main point is that basic mechanism is there, more ways to create multiple cursors can be added later. Thanks for the good work!

[austincondiff]

Are you referring to column selection? If so we have an issue for it here:

• ✨ Column selection CodeEditTextView#46