Text Editor Q : Table.ColumnSelect from VC6 in .NET

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Michael G. Scott

In VC6, I used Ctrl+Shift+F8 (Table.ColumnSelect) all the time, to
select the characters in the same column locations in multiple rows all
the time. This doesn't work in .NET, and I haven't found the
replacement. Anyone know what that is?

As an example, lets say I have the following lines :

foo.bar.strYes = _T("Yes");
foo.bar.strNo = _T("No");
foo.bar.numEntries = 25;

If I want to remove the "bar." part, I could go to the first "bar.", and
press Ctrl+Shift+F8. I can then press my Right-Arrow key 4 times, then
the Down-Arrow key 2 times, to select all the instances, then press
<Delete> to remove them.

I sorely miss this abililty. Anyone know the replacement?

Michael
 
I also want to know what happened to this awesome feature, and perhaps to
get it back. It doesn't seem to be available in the keyboard mappings.

/Morgan
 
Michael G. Scott said:
Yeah, but apparently the query isn't important enough to get an official
answer at this time. <sigh>
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I never use this feature, but I thought I remembered that it was still
there in VS.NET, so I tried it.

I can select a rectangular area with Alt+Shift+<arrow_keys>.

I can do the same with the mouse by holding Alt while dragging over an
area.
 
Thanx! That works too...

Harry Bosch said:
I never use this feature, but I thought I remembered that it was still
there in VS.NET, so I tried it.

I can select a rectangular area with Alt+Shift+<arrow_keys>.

I can do the same with the mouse by holding Alt while dragging over an
area.
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Thanks Harry. I'll have to reprogram my fingers. Where did you find
this???

Michael
 
Michael G. Scott said:
Thanks Harry. I'll have to reprogram my fingers. Where did you find
this???
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To tell you the actual truth, as I said I don't use this feature, I just
tried it, guessed at the keystrokes, and got it right the first time. The
Alt+mouse thing, though, I've know for many years because it goes all the
way back to PWB. So I guess using Alt was an educated guess :-)
 
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