Rectangular Editing
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## Rectangular Editing

Edit>More Clipboard>Vertical Paste command (shortcut: `Control`-`E` `Control`-`P`) behaves in a more intelligent manner. Entering characters while a rectangular selection is active inserts into each row of the selection, thus a zero-width rectangular selection can now act like a “tall caret”.

The new Edit>More Selection>Rectangular Selection command (shortcut: `Alt`-`\`) permits rectangular selections to be created using the keyboard. A static bar indicator is shown when rectangular selection mode is active.

Clicking beyond the end of a line in rectangular selection mode (or `Control`-clicking otherwise) inserts the appropriate amount of whitespace and moves the caret to the clicked location.

The rectangular selection now acts like a “tall caret”. Inserting text or pressing `Backspace` or `Delete` while a rectangular selection is active performs that operation on each selected line.

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