[Qt-creator] 'Block' selection.

Kuiper, Luuk kuiper at hitt.nl
Tue Jun 9 11:13:23 CEST 2009


>> Hello all,
>>  
>> A very handy feature in some editors is 'block' selection.
>> When selecting text whit the alt-button pressed, the selection does 
>> not follow the lines of code but the rectangle that is drawn with the
cursor.

>Actually, Qt Creator already has block selection, and you just press
Alt to activate it while you're selecting text. Due >to a bug though,
you can only delete the text using Del and not using Backspace. This has
been fixed for the next >release. 

I think it's a little strange that when I press Alt key before I start
to select, that nothing happens.
That is the reason why I missed that this feature existed.

Luuk




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