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Column copy/paste doesn't work the way I would expect

#1

I’m experimenting with sublime (3) as an alternative to SlickEdit and UltraEdit. I’m on OS/X.

I selected some text in multiple columns

I then moved the cursor to a new position in a line further down and tried to paste that block of code. However, as you can see from the second image, the text block was not inserted properly. The second two lines were positioned at the beginning of the line rather than exactly below the first copied line.

If I do the same thing in any of my other editors, (for example in SlickEdit)

I get exactly what I expect to happen.

Unless I’m missing something very subtle, the Sublime behavior is not useful (at least not to me)

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#2

Try using “ctrl+shift+v” to paste instead of just “ctrl+v”.

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