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Bug 57951

Summary: Support rectangular block editing in the editor.
Product: editor Reporter: _ sandipchitale <sandipchitale>
Component: -- Other --Assignee: issues@editor <issues>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 5.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description _ sandipchitale 2005-04-15 17:52:59 UTC 
For full description of how it should work see:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#Rectangles

One of the use case is in a java editor:

Adding or removing 'private' keyword for the fields:

int w;
int x;
int y;
int z;

to 

private int w;
private int x;
private int y;
private int z;

or back to original.
Comment 1 _ sandipchitale 2006-11-12 20:27:13 UTC 
Implemented in Rectangular Edit Tools module: 

http://blogs.sun.com/scblog/entry/rectangular_edit_tools_module_uploaded
Comment 2 _ sandipchitale 2007-11-19 19:15:46 UTC 
Latest version here:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=1174
Comment 3 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-06-18 11:54:24 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 13857 ***