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Multi-cursor & Column mode

Multiple cursors

  • Alt+Click adds a cursor; Ctrl+Alt+Up / Ctrl+Alt+Down stack cursors above / below. Esc collapses back to one.
  • Typing, Backspace/Delete and movement apply to every cursor; overlapping cursors merge. A multi-cursor edit is a single undo step.

Column / block mode

  • Shift+Alt+drag selects a rectangle. Typing or deleting acts per line.
  • Toggle Column Mode (Alt+Shift+C) makes Shift+movement build a block; in this mode a plain drag also builds a rectangle.

Column tools

  • Column Fill - insert the same text on every line of the block.
  • Column Number - insert an incrementing number (start[,step]), zero-padded.
  • Align at Carets / Align on Delimiter - line up columns.

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