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I'm transitioning from UltraEdit on windows to gedit on linux. So far, the experience is great (there's a lot here for a free tool), but there's one indispensable feature of UltraEdit I can't seem to find a way to replicate -- Column Mode.

In UltraEdit, I can hit Alt-C to turn on Column Mode. Is there anything like this (via a plugin probably) in gedit? It essentially lets you highlight text in a single column over many lines, so you can make edits to many lines at once (e.g., to comment out a section of text, prepend some string to aligned variable names, or for many other reasons). It's saved me countless hours of find-and-replace or repetitive manual editing of consecutive lines, and I feel very awkward in gedit without it.

Thanks for any hints!

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I'm not sure if this helps. The Gnome page on the subject is down. Quite a lot of people seem to be looking for that exact feature. One guy is doing this plug-in, try it perhaps it helps: http://jon-walsh.com/journal/multi-edit/ Other thoughts on the subject here: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17656/. This is supposed to be an unfinished plug-in for what you're looking for, but as I sad, the page appears to be down. http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode

webdreamer
Yeah, looks like I'm not the only one who became addicted to this feature. Multi-edit looks like an interesting option. Thanks!
marcopolo1010