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bigfive / atom-sublime-select

Enable 'sublime style' multiline selection boxes to Atom editor http://atom.io
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rename to "block select" or "multiple carets" perhaps? #5

Closed emory closed 10 years ago

emory commented 10 years ago

Should/could this package be renamed to "block select" or "column selection"? That is what BBEdit calls it, though TextMate calls it Multiple Carets [^1] so maybe this wouldn't be as suitable a descriptor as I thought.

Sublime Text calls it "Column Selection" [^2] and that seems like it's closer from a user interface perspective with what you are looking to do with this plugin? Personally I think TextMate's method of doing it with multiple different insertion points based on line length and content is amazing and I'd (personally) rather see that.

Explanation: I but don't want to discount the importance of a sublime-like column selector, but it just took me multiple searches to come across this with the nomenclature I'm accustomed to.

jtokoph commented 10 years ago

I was thinking of pushing my fork (https://github.com/bigfive/atom-sublime-select/pull/2) as column-select since @bigfive seems to have been MIA for 3 weeks. I was going to give some more time (30 days) to see if he returns.

emory commented 10 years ago

right on, I can wait.

bigfive commented 10 years ago

@emory Fair call. I'll see if atom allows me to alter the name to something more appropriate

bigfive commented 10 years ago

@emory When I changed the name Atom registered the plugin as a new one. But it is now called 'Sublime Style Column Selection'. With the other names you mentioned in the description. Hopefully it will allow people to find this easier. Thanks for the heads up

emory commented 10 years ago

np, thanks for kicking this out into the world. column selection is one of my most-used features in an editor (i spend a lot of time editing firewall ACLs…)