{"id":134,"date":"2014-10-28T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2015-10-15T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:13:25","slug":"vertical-editing-in-tex-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Editing (in TexStudio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical editing (or column selection) is a very helpful tool available in many text editors. \u00a0It allows for columns to be selected and edited instead of rows. \u00a0This can be great for copying and pasting in table information for an entire column that otherwise would need to be copied and pasted for each and every value.<\/p>\n<p>For a visual example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/features\/column-mode-editing.html\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> demonstrating column selection in Notepad++ (an excellent open source text editor).<\/p>\n<p>My Tex-specific editor of choice is <a href=\"http:\/\/texstudio.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">TexStudio<\/a>. \u00a0While not the most popular editor out there, I like it for\u00a0its ease, features, open source code, free price, and <strong>dual platform support for Mac and Windows <\/strong>(works with Linux too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vertical editing in TexStudio<\/strong> is simple, but perhaps not widely known. \u00a0Here are the relevant commands:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ctrl+Alt+Arrows: Creates additional cursors above\/below the line (<strong>no\u00a0<\/strong><strong>selection<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+Alt+Mouse: Creates a column of cursors, or new cursors at arbitrary\u00a0places (<strong>no selection<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Arrows: <strong>Selects<\/strong> a block<\/li>\n<li>Shift+Ctrl+Mouse: <strong>Selects<\/strong> a block<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Linux<\/strong>: \u00a0Same as above, but users may have to work through conflicts with your window manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mac<\/strong>: \u00a0Same as above, but <strong>substitute Cmd for Ctrl<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical editing (or column selection) is a very helpful tool available in many text editors. \u00a0It allows for columns to be selected and edited instead of rows. \u00a0This can be great for copying and pasting in table information for an entire column that otherwise would need to be copied and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Vertical Editing (in Tex Studio)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,36,48],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides","tag-latex","tag-tex","tag-texstudio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51adQ-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}