[rattray]

That's incredible.

From the website it looks like a Windows-oriented tool. If it weren't for your product I wouldn't have even guessed they had a Mac version. I bet they'd do much better with adoption if they customized their homepage screenshots to the platform viewing the page…

For others curious about Column Mode, here's their link with a nice video: https://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials-power-tips/ultra...

Apparently in VS Code you can do similar things: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_column...

    1. Hold ⇧⌥ and drag for box select.
    2. Press ⇧⌥⌘↓ for "column select down"
    3. Run "Toggle column selection mode" and ⇧↓.

(Still looks like UltraEdit has some very powerful features for manipulating text in columns, like aligning whitespace).

TIL. Looks great!

[exhilaration]

In Notepad++ you would just alt+drag, no need to enable a special mode. It looks pretty much exactly like what's in that video.

[jacekm]

Or alt+shift+arrows if you don't want to use mouse.

[kwanbix]

It could be because they started as a Windows only product, then they produced a Linux version, and finally the Mac version.

I have only used the Windows/Linux versions. By the way, with one license you can use all 3 platforms.

I actually use the Portable Windows version, for when the company I work for won't allow me to install software :)

[erwincoumans]

Indeed, I purchased a perpetual Ultraedit license for Windows, Mac and Linux many years ago. I like the hex editing, huge file support, column editing.

[bradstewart]

In VSCode you can also middle-click (the scroll wheel on a mouse) and drag to do column select.

[kwanbix]

But what I lick of UE is that you can do everything with your keyboard, no need to use the mouse.

[artimaeis]

The same is true of the "column edit" functionality in VS Code. I don't think there's anything that requires the mouse, especially since from the keyboard you can invoke the command window to run any function.

[kwanbix]

But VS Code is what, 3 or 5 years old? When I was searching for a text editor, this was 20~25 years ago!

[bradstewart]

For sure. I was more pointing out a feature I find helpful (and one I didn't know about for a while) than trying to "convert" you. Use what works for you!