If you wish to create a box that is taller/wider than the current screen then you must select one corner with a single-click, scroll the pane, and then shift-click to set the second corner.Ītom Selection Matching When you enter box-mode a new box will be created that surrounds all existing Atom selections. This allows extending/shrinking a selection. You can also extend it to a bigger box using shift-click.Įxtending Selection Shift-click will move the second corner of a box to the new point. Single Clicking If you click without dragging then a zero-width box will be created. You may select anywhere in the editor pane including to the right of line endings. The support of arrow keys is planned for the future. The box will be shown as a red rectangle. Selecting When in box mode you can create a box by clicking and dragging the mouse. The mouse cursor changes into a cross-hair. You can tell you are in box mode when the Atom selections disappear and a red box appears (unless it is outside of the visible area).
EDIT VIDEO TEXT BOX ONLINE INSTALL
Installation Install box-edit using apm install box-edit.Įntering/Exiting Box Mode The command to toggle box mode on and off is box-edit:toggle which by default is bound to Alt-S. So by switching back and forth you can create Atom cursor-based rectangles like other packages do.
Useful for comments to the right of multiple lines. A box can be turned into a character-based editor (an html textarea) which allows typing wrapped text into a rectangle.The box mode supports basic editor commands such as cut, copy, paste, and undo/redo.The box can be filled with any character, such as a space, to blank an area.A box can be selected, cut, and pasted anywhere, even to the right of lines.Box-edit supports virtual spaces to the right of lines which solves a problem found in rectangular selection tools that use Atom cursors/selections. You can cut, paste, insert, etc., on a box instead of character strings. When in box mode the Atom cursors disappear and a new red box cursor takes over. An Atom package to edit rectangular areas supports short lines.īox-edit provides for selecting and editing a box (rectangular area) of text in the Atom editor.
0 kommentar(er)
