From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,bff38cc1a61fc9b2 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.189.75 with SMTP id dd11mr8819315qab.6.1347428977622; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.75.3 with SMTP id y3mr2537615yhd.20.1347428977596; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Path: da15ni3445qab.0!nntp.google.com!v8no2068558qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:49:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9c570f28-d060-447e-aa0e-abf8286214bc@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.54.29.134; posting-account=_i6TTAoAAAAd1GvvdC_uPcXFPoPxLL_- NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.54.29.134 References: <9c570f28-d060-447e-aa0e-abf8286214bc@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Column Editing in GPS From: wjthomas@wcvt.com Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:49:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-09-11T22:49:37-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:37:53 AM UTC-4, Anh Vo wrote: > On Monday, September 10, 2012 11:17:06 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote: >=20 > > Is there some trick to get the GPS editor to perform column mode editin= g under Windows 7, or how GPS puts it "Rectangles". I'm using GPS 5.5.1. Bi= ll >=20 >=20 >=20 > I am not clear what column mode editting in GPS means. Could you clearify= in it a bit more. By the way, regarding GPS version, I thought the latest = version is 5.1.1 which comes with GNATPro. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Anh Vo Sorry for the typo you are correct, its 5.1.1. Column mode editing, I would= not know how else to describe it. It's the ability to 'usually' hold down = the alt key and dragging the mouse, cause the mouse to select a rectangular= region of text and then cut/copy the "columns" of text and then be able to= insert them as a rectangular column elsewhere in the document. The Edit menu item has an entry called Rectangle with a submenu of items th= at would lead one to believe that it pertains to "column mode" editing. The= question is how do you either enter that mode using the mouse or some othe= r key sequence. Thier documentation is, how do I put it kindly, scant on th= e subject.