[FEATURE] Free text selection.

[RodrigoTR04]

Feature request is to be able to freely select and edit text within a block of text without being forced onto the next line.

Additional context:

Feature is similar/identical to what Notepad++ does when you hold Alt and select with the mouse cursor. The user is able to select a rectangle akin to what is possible and clicking and holding in a desktop with icons. Notepad++ also allows user to write the same text to the multiple lines selected.

[pbek]

I guess that would be very hard to achieve in a QPlainTextEdit.

[RodrigoTR04]

From what I researched in other Qt editors, not sure if this applies to QPlainTextEdit specifically, Kate does it with Ctrl + Shift + B as a toggle. I couldn't find if Kate also uses QPlainTextEdit, since I'm not a developer myself.

[BsNoSi]

🤔 Use (for example) notepad++ as external editor (supporting this by pressing Alt together with mouse→left pressed)?

Maybe, a “set of external editors” (at least a second or third) might be easier to implement and much more flexible, if a special editing is required.

[pbek]

Maybe, a “set of external editors” (at least a second or third) might be easier to implement and much more flexible, if a special editing is required.

That could be implemented as a script with https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/methods-and-objects.html#registering-a-custom-action and https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/methods-and-objects.html#starting-an-external-program-in-the-background.

And https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/methods-and-objects.html#registering-script-settings-variables

[BsNoSi]

In general, I find scripts interesting, but I couldn't find any hints on how to program/implement my own scripts on a Windows PC (to be honest, I haven't looked very hard, because I don't have the time at the moment).

[pbek]

I couldn't find any hints on how to program/implement my own scripts on a Windows PC

See above links and https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/ in general.

[BsNoSi]

This in no way fills the big hole of my complete cluelessness regarding qt scripting, but at least the hurdle for “trial and error” is now lowered a lot. I will return to this.