CodeLite IDE

Hi,

I've been using CodeLite for about two weeks on both Mac and Linux, and so far it has been great.

However, I'm missing one basic editing feature.

With CodeLite I can easily make a rectangular selection ( Shift+Alt + arrows ).

I can then copy or cut this selection to the clipboard.

Once in the clipboard, however, if I paste, it comes out as regular lines of text. If I paste in the middle of an existing line, the newline in the clipboard splits the existing line.

I would like to have it come out as a rectangular block ( or at least have that option ).

Is this already possible ( and I'm just missing how to do it )?

This is a feature that I got addicted to long ago in VisualStudio, and that I use frequently in SciTE.

I can see thee possibilities: either the text in the clipboard "knows" it is a rectangle, and automatically pastes specially. Or: there is a special paste command that pastes as a rectangle. Or: you have to make a zero width rectangular selection to mark location for the rectangular paste.

Thanks!

prose wrote: and that I use frequently in SciTE.

This is strange, since if SciTE has it, CodeLite should have it too.
CodeLite uses the same editing component as SciTE (scintilla), however, our version is a bit behind, it is 3.5.5.
I will check to see if there is a flag I am missing in the scintilla documentation

Eran

Thanks for looking into it.

I am using the latest version of SciTE, but the rectangular paste has been working since at least 2013 ( and probably much earlier ).

In SciTE there is no explicit special paste action. If it went into the clipboard from a rectangular selection, it automatically pastes as a rectangle.