<p><a href="https://github.com/sagarchalise" class="user-mention">@sagarchalise</a> That plugin relies on geany providing the functions <code>sci_set_selection_mode</code> and <code>sci_get_selection_mode</code>, that is geany already supporting rectangle selections. I suppose geany could expose the underlying functionality from scintilla for plugins and just not in its own GUI and let a plugin handle it. This might actually be a good way to get testing for multiple selection corner cases: users can opt-in by installing the plugin, with the expectation that some things might be weird/broken. Eventually multi-edit-mode could be moved into geany proper.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how to handle the mouse portion in this scenario though.</p>

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