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Rich-text area for JavaFX

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Feature: Rectangular Selection #106

Open RobertBColton opened 9 years ago

RobertBColton commented 9 years ago

I find this feature an absolute must. It is provided in a lot of popular code editing components, namely Scintilla, which nearly a decade after its initial release is one of the most widely used text editors.

My reasoning can be summed as follows:

Found in just about every editor I can think of including Eclipse, Code::Blocks (Scintilla), GEdit, Notepad++, Visual Studio.
Minor feature and trivial to implement so it is also within the scope and primary mission of this project.
Impossible to format verbose markup languages like HTML and XML otherwise.

JordanMartinez commented 8 years ago

222 would need to be implemented first before this could be done.

Ansury commented 8 years ago

Was this actually implemented? I just integrated this into a little project I've got going and, unless I completely misunderstand what rectangular selection means, it seems to be highlighting everything fine (using CodeArea). Am I missing something?

screenshot from 2016-07-06 00 57 00

alt-grr commented 8 years ago

@Ansury This is "rectangular selection":

Ansury commented 8 years ago

Gotcha--never used that before, interesting. Will have to think about that some more, maybe it'd be useful to have (now that I know about it!)

alt-grr commented 8 years ago

It is useful, but not in that example from the screenshot :wink: E.g. you can delete a whole column in tab-separated CSV file.

JordanMartinez commented 6 years ago

This should be possible now that #222 was implemented.