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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Column Mode Editing</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Column Mode editing</h1>
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<p>A
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special way of editing files is column mode editing. This means that
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text can be selected in columns, rather than rows (effectively
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meaning 'vertical editing'). The column editing support is done via
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Scintilla, but with a few supplements of Notepad++. To initiate a
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Column mode selection, depress the <span class="shortcut">Alt</span> key (default) when selecting
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text (using <span class="shortcut">mouse</span> or <span class="shortcut">cursor keys</span>), moving the cursor downwards or
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upwards as needed. This works best if a non-proportional (monospaced)
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font is used, because then each character will be aligned with the
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ones above and below it (refer to <a href="Styler%20Configurator.html">Styler Configurator</a> for more
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information).
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<p>When text is
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selected in this so called rectangilar mode, typing will change each selected column of characters into the typed character, or insert such a column.
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Use the ESC key to exit this special typing mode. To back up one column, use the <span class="menu_item">Edit->Undo</span> feature, instead of the <span class="shortcut">Backspace</span> key.
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<p><img style="width: 341px; height: 357px;" alt="" src="Images/Screenshots/column_editor.png"><p>
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<p>The
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Column Editor dialog</span> is designed to make working with columns easier.
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It can be opened by selecting <span class="menu_item">Edit->Column Editor</span>.
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<p>There
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are two types of insertions that the column editor supports, regular
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text or number sequences.
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<ul><li> By selecting the <span class="radio">Text to insert</span> option, it
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will overwrite each selected row with the given text.
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</li><li>The <span class="radio">Number to insert</span> option will change each selected row into a numeric value,
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depending on the parameters given:
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<ul><li>The <span class="label">Initial number</span> is the first
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number to be inserted.
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</li><li>The <span class="label">Increase by</span> value gives the value by which
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each consecutive number will increase.
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</li><li>If the <span class="radio">Leading zeros</span> option is
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checked, smaller values will be padded with zeros to make them the
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same size as larger values, character wise.
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</li><li>Finally, you can choose
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which radix to use for numbers (Format), default is Decimal (10 base).
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</li></ul></ul>
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</body></html>
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