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40 lines
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<title>Selecting text</title>
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<body><h1>Selecting text</h1>
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<p>As with any known text editor, you can select text using either the mouse or keyboard.
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Selected text can be moved to some other part of the same document, copied elsewhere
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in the same or another document, searched for text, deleted, an more.
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</p><h2>How to select text</h2>
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When using the mouse, the most basic way - but there are other - is to drag
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the mouse from start point to end point. You can also double click a word to
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select it, or triple click on a line to select it. The same effect is achieved
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by a simple click on the line number margin, when displayed.
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You can extend a selection by shift clicking its new insertion point.
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</p><p>When using the keyboard, the expected procedure is to use navigation keys
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in conjunction with the <span class="Shortcut">Shift</span> modifier. These keyboard shortcuts can be changed at any time using the Shortcut Mapper.
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</p><h2>Stream vs rectangular selection</h2>
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<p>The above procedures are known to define a <i>stream</i> selection, which encompasses
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a contiguous range of text. Using the SCI_SWAPMAINANCHORCARET Scintilla command from the Shortcut mapper, you can choose whether the caret starts or ends the selection.
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</p><p>However, Notepad++ also knows about rectangular selections, which define a rectangle of strips on contiguous lines. To select a rectangle, use the
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above methods while also holding the <span class="Shortcut">Alt</span> modifier key down. For exmple, the basic way with
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the mouse is to <span class="Shortcut">Alt-click</span> the start point and Alt-move the mouse to the end point, and so forth. The Alt- versions of keyboard shortcuts can be changed as well.
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</p><p>It is possible to combine a stream selection and arectangular selection, using the keyboard.
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This is probably less useful, but is not a bug.
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</p><p>The <span class="menu_item">Edit -> Line operations -> Move Up/Down current line</span> commands also move the selected area, if it is not rectangular. This ability is lost when several selections are made - see below.
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</p><h2>Multiple stream selections</h2>
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<p>If a stream area is selected, it is possible to add another, disjoint area by Ctrl-clicking its start point and moving the mouse to the end point.
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More than one extra selection can be added this way. However, this ability
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does not extend to rectangular selections. A rectangular selection may still cling to one of the stream selections though. The SCI_ROTATESELECTION Scintilla command enables to cycle through selections, in the order they were defined.
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</p><p>When copying or cutting a multiple selection, the text is recorded in the order the selections appear, regardless of the order in which they were made.
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