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<p>I'm not the coder, nor have any answer or thought on the matter,
but I would like to point out that if you select text (any text)
and then use a multi-cursor (pressing Alt+Shift+Down Arrow several
times) and then Ctrl-V to paste, you get such a multi-row paste
very easily.</p>
<p>Whether the mentioned IDE thing gets fixed or not, I find this
the easier way.</p>
<p>Cheers!<br>
Ryan</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021/02/20 12:06, duilio foschi via
lazarus wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">If the coder in charge of the editor reads
this, I have a prayer for him:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">1.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The text showed in </div>
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<div dir="ltr">is column-selected using shift+alt+arrow
followed by ctrl-C</div>
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<div dir="ltr">2. using the arrows key, I move the cursor to
the position shown in</div>
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<div dir="ltr">3. I press ctrl-V. The text ':string' is
correctly copied into the </div>
<div dir="ltr">expected position but... look at the cursor</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The cursor is now at the position after the
'g' in the same row where the</div>
<div dir="ltr">text was copied. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">So in the Lazarus editor there is no
difference in copying a text row-selected </div>
<div dir="ltr">and a text column-selected.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">In Delphi there is a big difference when you
copy a text (at least until v. 7,</div>
<div dir="ltr">when I stopped using it).</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Say you copy a text of lenght L from the
clipboard into point (x,y). </div>
<div dir="ltr">If the text is row-selected, Delphi sets the
cursor at point (x+L,y), </div>
<div dir="ltr">like the Lazarus editor does.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">But if the text is column-selected, Delphi
sets the cursor at point (x,y+1),</div>
<div dir="ltr">in the row below.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">This enables you to quickly copy several rows
of text, as shown here</div>
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<div dir="ltr">This ability is a big plus for a
coder...well... at least I remember I was using </div>
<div dir="ltr">it often :)</div>
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