Add column-mode editing to the IDE's text editor

[TheBetaFruit]

It would be awesome to have a column-mode for the editor. This makes it really easy to replace whole columns of content at once.

Like in Visual Studio or Notepad ++, it could be activated using the Alt+Shift+ArrowKey Combination.

[facchinm]

This should be first implemented by RSyntaxTextArea (issue here bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea#90), feel free to comment on that issue to gain traction and speedup the implementation 😉

[per1234]

It should be noted that this feature was previously available in the Arduino IDE before the switch to RSyntaxTextArea in Arduino IDE 1.6.5 (see https://forum.arduino.cc/?topic=333659).

I agree that it's a very useful feature.

[CyberSwatTeam990000]

Is this ever coming? It's a pretty usual thing. I wanna comment out a whole method, I have to go line to line and double tap, what is this the 1970's lol

[per1234]

Great news everyone! This requested functionality is now available in Arduino IDE 2.x. By default, it uses the same standard keyboard shortcut as VS Code and Notepad++.

It's still in the beta development phase, but if you like, you're welcome to try it out:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/software#experimental-software