On Apr 5, 2007, at 22:29, Allan Odgaard wrote:
The explanation is here http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ working_with_text#column_movement_typing
And this screencast shows it in action with some commenting: http:// macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/04/22/working-with-numbers/
Hm. I didn't see any explanation in the manual (the first of your URLs); maybe I didn't look hard enough? But the explanation in the screencast certainly made sense. Somewhat hard to puzzle out that rule for oneself, though, by playing with paragraphs of text :)