Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Text Block Selection

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This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to do a ‘block’ selection in the text editor.

Eclipse Text Block Selection

Eclipse Text Block Selection

To start a block selection use Alt+Shift+A or use the icon on the toolbar:

Toggle Block Selection

Toggle Block Selection

Then use the mouse to mark a block in the text editor:

Block selection

Block selection

Then I can cut or copy the selected text:

Block deleted

Block deleted

While in block mode (indicated by the cross-hair cursor) I can insert the copied text block:

Inserted Text Block

Inserted Text Block

To exit the block selection mode, use the toolbar button again or use Alt+Shift+A.

Happy Blocking 🙂

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17 thoughts on “Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Text Block Selection”

  1. Nice trick, now I don’t have to copy to npp to do just copy paste. Can you please make post about importing/making Cmake projects .

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  2. It’s a really neat feature, although I prefer multi cursor editing as in Atom. It’s more flexible and faster accessible. But the block selection does quite a good job.

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