It would be nice to be able to select text vertically......selecting only the columns 3 to 10 for the selected rows....
A lot of editors do that already......for instance Borland Delphi editor.....
Imagine you have the text :

myarrays[0].name = 'name';
myarrays[0].age = 25;
myarrays[0].surname = 'surname';
myarrays[0].color = 'black';
myarrays[0].gender = 'female';
myarrays[0].height = '160';

And you want to convert myarrays[0] to myarray.......Yes, I know that is possible to search/replace but it would be so
faster to select "s[0]" in the first row and then move down and select those columns in the other lines..... and then
press "Del" to delete those characters.....