Block Selection Feature

[Johnco3]

I attach a pair of screen grabs comparing the block selection cursor line in Visual SlickEdit compared to Visual Studio.  I raised this as a feature request prior to 19.0.1 - however it appears to not have made it into the latest 19.0.2 release.  Note that this is just for the 0 width case where microsoft show a razor thin cursor line compared to SlickEdit's 1 character block.  To me it would appear to be more intuitive if SlickEdit provided similar behavior to visual studio in this regard.  Note that this ability to select a zero width vertical column (useful for insertion as the past buffer is inserted at this line) is also in Coliru - the online editor coliru.stacked-crooked.com/ (try using the alt key and selecting a vertical block like in Slickedit and Visual Studio). 

Another key difference when in block selection mode is that the mouse wheel extends the selection horizontally rather than vertically in VS.  Normally I use the block selection mode to select long ranges of vertical text and the mouse wheel is a useful wheel to extend that selection.  It appears that ms got this one right.

John

[JimmieC]

Block select in Boxer is also a thin between characters until extended left or right. I like it better too. See attached screen shot.

I am using SE v2011.

[Dennis]

One way to get a thin cursor is to use the multi-cursor support in SlickEdit 2014.

After you create your single character block selection, press Ctrl+Shift+| to convert the selection to multiple cursors.

[Clark]

v20 will have an option for non-inclusive block/column selections. A zero width selection will display a thin cursor-like rectangle in selection color like described here.  Users will be able to choose inclusive or non-inclusive block/column selections. Take your pick!

At the moment, we are leaning towards defaulting to inclusive block/column selections for all emulations.