On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:30:12 -0400 Vineet Jain vinjvinj@gmail.com wrote:
Over a larger area, the column mode will freeze all of Geany to a point where I have a to kill the program.
Steps to reproduce: [...]
Yes. And it's exactly the same when using Ctrl+Alt without the column mode plugin, and the same in SciTE - that is, the column mode in the Scintilla editing widget is slow.
With the extrasel plugin, you can at least use Ctrl-[Alt]-Shift -Left/Right for whole words instead of single columns, and ...-Home/End for top/end of the document. But for lots of lines, you'd better make a stream selection first (Select to Line is helpful, if you know the final line#), and then convert it by activating Column Mode.
When using Scintilla < 3465, this conversion causes a serious delay - Ctrl+Alt-Shift-Left/Right is faster, but sometimes the selection will become wrong - so you'd better get a current svn Geany. Overall, the rectangle selection and virtual spaces in Scintilla are not very good.