Atlantis is able to work not only with ordinary selection of text but with column blocks too.
An ordinary selection is a fragment of the document enclosed between two cursor positions.
A column block is a fragment of the document enclosed within a rectangular area.
The Column Block support in Atlantis has some specifics: column blocks are not permanent. In other words, after the operation on a column block is performed, this column block is unselected.
So before selecting a column block, you should decide which operation on this block you want to perform.
Atlantis supports the following operations on column blocks.
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When the Zigzag Block Selection Mode option (the Tools | Options... command, Edit tab) is on, a column block is displayed so that you could see which characters are actually selected and which are not. When this option is off, a column block is displayed as an ordinary rectangle. |
See also...
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Selecting Text |