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I really miss this feature and would be great to see it in Sublime Text.
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For example, when pressing Ctrl-Alt-Down to add new cursors below your current cursor, if your original cursor position is not in the first column and you cross over an empty line, you wind up with extra cursors in confusing and non-helpful spots. The lack of virtual whitespace in this common scenario pretty much foils the multicursor functionality's potential usefulness.
If virtual whitespace were supported, the resultant behavior in this example scenario would be much more intuitive -- and quite useful.
Virtual whitespace would be similarly beneficial with ST's block-select (shift-right drag). For instance, when copy-pasting text tables containing blank lines and a ragged right edge, you could shift columns around with impunity, knowing that any needed alignment-preserving whitespace would be added as a side effect.
your first issue can be adressed by writing custom command, which i did a few months ago.
take a look here - https://gist.github.com/3478311
Vitaliy - Thank you! Very useful while waiting for this to be implemented (fingers-crossed) in Sublime Text as a core ability!
You can find updated version of the command here https://gist.github.com/4338959.
It supports mltiple selections as well as fixes one exotic annoyance i had with new regions placement when expanding selection.
Another big +1 :) Bit of a showstopper for me - I've been used for so long to freely being able to place the cursor and type, originally back in the 80s with Brief and now with Crisp, the multiplatform Brief-like editor that I've been using since that time. Apart from freeform column selection and insertion, this function is also very useful for in-line commenting and general processing tasks on SQL, CSV etc. types.
I've been "playing" for a little while with Sublime as I liked the innovations that Textmate (and E on Windows) brought to the table. My needs are for multiplatform and the least important to me is Mac, so TM is ruled out. E is Win only, and has a tendency to be slow and buggy while its development cycle seems to move like molasses. Sublime looks just about right, but is missing a few key abilities; for me, as for a few others this is a big one.
As a workaround I did think to knock up a script (enable freeform mode) that would populate the RHS with spaces up to column x, and disable freeform mode that would strip them again. This would be a useful stopgap but problematic for working larger files.
On another note, and disappointed by E in this regard, I was wondering whether development on Sublime had slowed up. I noticed Jon hadn't posted here for around 8 months. I'd be much happier buying into something that really feels like it's an active, ongoing development.
By the way, this can be implemented as a plugin. Completely (assuming you have "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save" active and I did not miss something).
The keys are with the viewport and layout methods from View, some math and the overriding of the "invisible" "run_" method so you can parse the "event" parameter which is silently stripped before calling the "run" method by "sublime_plugin.py".
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