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      A Former User
      last edited by A Former User

      First, is a question on multi-edit (multi-caret, ctrl+click) mode:
      in several places users showed to want a shortcut to place a new caret on same column as current one, on the upper or lower line. Similarly to how it’s possible in column-edit mode.
      https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4426
      https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23097/is-multi-caret-editing-bugged

      Do you think the request for a command/message for such a shortcut is suitable to be made at Scintilla feature tracker?

      Second, on column-edit (rectangular mode), I placed a feature request at Scintilla to make possible moving the column of carets with arrow keys:
      https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1493/

      Third, another feature request on multi-edit mode, to make delete key delete EOL-s
      https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1494/

      You can vote /comment/ help implement them if you want.

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          Nicholas
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          Try the plugin BetterMultiSelection. It adds some of the features you mentioned.

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            A Former User
            last edited by A Former User

            The answer to my question is probably no;
            I have found it’s easy to create a script (to which can assign the shortcut), using the following ingredients:

            SCI_ADDSELECTION
            SCI_GETCURRENTPOS    
            SCI_GETANCHOR
            SCI_GETCOLUMN
            SCI_LINEFROMPOSITION
            SCI_FINDCOLUMN
            

            But it might be worth having it natively in Npp.

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