Comments on: HOW TO : Select column in Notepad++

By: George

George — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:29:55 +0000

Thanks!!!

By: Yaarik

Yaarik — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:31:56 +0000

I was about to give up with frustration. Thanks.

By: federico

federico — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:30:02 +0000

Grazie Mille!!

By: tadzio

tadzio — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:55:47 +0000

Vinay – thank you for the reply. I managed by using Excel finally – easy to cut columns during the import . Too bad N+ does not have this feature – even re-running macros was really slow… I guess this could be easily solved by the right plugin – maybe one day when I have time

By: Vinay

Vinay — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:01:53 +0000

tadzio – Unfortunately, I don’t think notepad++ has this feature. The most you can do is use alt+shift+select data+pagedown to select data in a page(display). For doing tasks like the ones you describe, I would recommend using perl/python (or any scripting language). If you can give a sample of your file, I can help you write a simple perl script to delete the data.

By: tadzio

tadzio — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:53:50 +0000

OK, so as I understand – there is no way to DELETE/SELECT entire column on the VERY large files. Say I have 100 000 lines text file and I want to delete first 3 columns…

By: Melisa

Melisa — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:40:29 +0000

very nice article, I have been trying to look for this. Thanks!

By: Michael T

Michael T — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:24:15 +0000

Shift+Alt+PgDn to select the entire column on page.
You have to hit pgDn twice.

Hope that helps!

By: shawn

shawn — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:27:03 +0000

Contrary to what vinlay said

I cannot select an entire column to the end of file.
End goes to end of line
And Ctrl End doesn’t work when column selecting.

I also hate that the cursor doesn’t go back to the beginning position after typing and changing lines, ala textpad.
making multi line edits a pain.

By: CoreyD

CoreyD — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:51:40 +0000

Thanks! I miss UE but this is nice!