Eclipse: Can you place the cursor on all lines?

Question

In IDEA, you had the opportunity to place the cursor on all lines.

Is this possible in Eclipse?

Answer 1

Eclipse 3.5 should have column mode (what I think you are asking about) - use Alt+Shift+A :

• http://update.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/eclipse-news-part1.html#Text

I have not tried this since I am stuck in version 3.4.1. There's a patch that claims to work on 3.4.0 ( http://tkilla.ch/column_mode/ ), but it doesn’t work for my 3.4.1 installation.

Answer 2

If you are referring to the ability to select a group of strings (e.g., all functions), you can use the schema view

alt text http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/radhelp/v7r5/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/whatsNew/images/drag-and-drop-outline.png

From there, you can move / reorder / delete the entire block of text.

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If it comes to column mode, see my answer here .

alt text http://update.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/images/block-selection-mode.png