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I various other editors you can select columns of text (using say, ALT + Mouse drag). Not only can the selected columns be cut and pasted, tabs can be added or removed before the marked area. This feature is very useful with long lists of things - mostly takes a lot less time that using finad-and-replace with regular expressions - which is the only substitute at present.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 13857 ***