Feature request: vertical block editing (like Visual Studio, Notepad++, Sublime

[Alexandr Ustinov]

It will be very nice to have vertical block editing in PSD, like it was implemented in most modern IDEs and text editors, like Visual Studio, Notepad++, Sublime, etc.

The feature should work like shown below: user selects text using Alt+Arrows (or Alt+mouse), then each typed character is added to each line in the block; Backspace works the same way - deletes entire column left to cursor, and Del deletes either entire column right to cursor;
if vertical block has width > 0 (zero) chars then the selected text is removed first, then the rules which are applicable to zero width block are applied.

The feature is described here:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2009/10/26/box-selection-and-multi-line-editing.aspx

please see it at 50 second:

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or here:

 

[ScottMattes]

There is a plug-in from Bar Solutions, called ColumnEdit, that does this (but you have to use the Edit menu).

 

[Alexandr Ustinov]

I'm sorry, but I'm not asking how to add text to selection.

As workaround I can always copy/paste text into notepad++, to do edit there, rather than do the non-standard plugin way, which proposes +1 way to implement the task.

I'm asking to implement the de-facto standard feature in PSD, just like it was implemented in all the modern text editors, without all those non-standard dialogs, menus, etc.

All the editors must work the same way, that's the point. Time, when each editor has own set of shortcuts ended in 90s, and I barely understand why you are proposing to do non-standard way now - to use the plugin.

 

[IvanZ]

Well, PLD is a software of 90s design-wise ))

Plugins are okay, but dont provide proposed functionality.