How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, Textpad,etc) and IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc) [closed]
How to select columns in Editors and IDEs to columnar delete, insert or replace some characters ?
Editors:
- Atom
- Notepad++
- Kate
- VIM
- Sublime
- Emacs
- Textpad
- Emerald Editor
- UltraEdit
- MCEdit
- jEdit
- Nedit
IDEs:
- NetBeans
- Eclipse
- Visual Studio
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Flash Builder
- Aptana Studio
- Notepad++, Visual Studio, and some others: Alt + drag.
- vim: Ctrl + v or (bizarrely enough) Quad-click-drag. In windows: Ctrl + Q (since Ctrl + V is the standard for paste)
In Kate toggle Ctrl + shift + B .
In Netbeans 7.1 can select columns (Rectangular Selection) with Ctrl + shift + R . There is also a button 
in the code editor available.
This is how rectangular selections look like:
