Control
+E
Control
+P
) behaves in a more intelligent manner. Entering characters while a rectangular selection is active inserts into each row of the selection, thus a zero-width rectangular selection can now act like a “tall caret”.
The new Alt
+\
) permits rectangular selections to be created using the keyboard. A static bar indicator is shown when rectangular selection mode is active.
Clicking beyond the end of a line in rectangular selection mode (or Control
-clicking otherwise) inserts the appropriate amount of whitespace and moves the caret to the clicked location.
The rectangular selection now acts like a “tall caret”. Inserting text or pressing Backspace
or Delete
while a rectangular selection is active performs that operation on each selected line.