
This allows performing the same editing actions (typing, copy/cut/paste/delete, arrowing through the text) in multiple locations, even if they aren’t lined up in a nice column, or even if there are lines between the carets that you don’t want to affect. Multi-Editing mode allows you to make multiple caret selections by using Ctrl+Click for each additional caret. (Example: to get F- 1F, column-select 17 rows and set the initial number to 15 – it will not allow F.) Note: that the numerical boxes above are always in decimal, even if a different format is chosen for display.

The Column Editor dialog, accessed via Edit > Column Editor, allows you to insert text or numbers in every row of the active Column Mode selection:


This is implemented for making working with rectangles of text (instead of whole lines of text) more convenient. If you copy/cut in column mode, then you copy/cut a rectangle of text, which can be pasted over an identical-sized rectangle elsewhere, or pasted into a separate document or separate application. In column mode, typing will type the same thing in all the rows of the column. Using Alt + Mouse dragging or Alt + Shift + Arrow keys to make a selection in column mode:
