Sune Foldager wrote:
On 28. okt 2004, at 11:44, Drew McLellan wrote:
I just make a rectangular selection of a column about 20 lines long, and copied it to the clipboard.
Pasting this further down the document failed to create the extra space needed for the code being pasted, and effectively 'merged' the pasted code with the existing code following the insertion point.
Hard to explain. Will screen shot the steps if necessary.
I think I know what you mean... pasting columnar selections, will paste it back the same way producing the merge you are talking about. This is on purpose and by design however. If you really need the extra space you will need to press enter a bit yourself beforehand. I suppose it could be useful in some circumstances with a paste that forced TM to ignore that it is in columnar mode.
I see - "broken by design" :)
I can see how this special paste mode could be very useful, but I don't think it should be the default. Everyone is familiar with how paste works - the code is placed at the insertion point, displacing everything that comes after it.
This cool merge paste trick should be some kind of "special paste".
I like it though!
drew.