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,CP1252 Received: by 10.224.181.75 with SMTP id bx11mr9371191qab.7.1347452868889; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.192.164 with SMTP id i24mr2639868yhn.14.1347452868855; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: da15ni3445qab.0!nntp.google.com!v8no2097636qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:27:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: 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 12:27:48 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-09-12T05:27:48-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:16:36 AM UTC-4, AdaMagica wrote: > In GPS, select Help/GPS/Using the GNAT Programming Studio. >=20 > Chapter 5.5 Rectangles explains how to do it. Oh, why didn=92t I think of that first, oh yea, I did think of that first. = That=92s why I asked for the =93trick=94 as in something I may be missing t= hat=92s not as obvious as the documentation might state. Wait a minute. OK I see the problem, it does not highlight the selected columns as a colum= n in the editor. You just have to take it for granted that the area between= the starting column of the cursor and ending column of the cursor ( of the= horizontally selected text) is what is being selected as a rectangle.=20 It must be the european style of column editing. Thanks for the slap in the head in making me see what's not there.