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I think Vertical Selection is  important sometimes. For example:

I want to delete the following comments

int a; // define a …

int b; // define b …

int c; // define c

and the result is:

int a;

int b;

int c;

If I can select a block area. That's easy to delete the comments.

UltraEdit and jEdit have this feature and well done.

I definitively agree. This is the main reason why I use jEdit. Their block selections are superb. jEdit even supports 0-width block selection, and typing inserts values on all lines.

For example

int a;
int b;
int c;

can be easily turned into:

int myVariable_a;
int myVariable_b;
int myVariable_c;
 

I personally think this would give SharpDevelop an edge over VS Express editor. 

I definitively also agree! And I wrote about this before in this forum. See: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/10155.aspx

I think the best implementation of vertical selection is in CodeMax (A discontinued project, but you can download here: http://www.download.com/3001-2352_4-10284778.html).

It is really nice!

Thanks. 

There are no plans to implement this.

SharpDevelop is an open-source project, so why don't you try to implement this?

Hi! Daniel,

As my skills in c# are not enough to implement this feature by myself, I asked a guy to do this for me. He did a good job and it seems to be working well.

Features implemented: Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete/MultiLineEdit/Drag and Drop, etc...

May I drop you an email, with sourcecode attached, for you take a look?

Perhaps it can be useful for others SD users. :)

Thanks.