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In MS Visual Studio, you can hold down the Alt key and make text selections vertically. Is this feature available in NetBeans on Mac OS X?
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Most GUIs, including Netbeans, allow you to select a word by double-clicking on it and an entire line by triple-clicking on it. selection-end-line (Shift+End) selection-down (SHift+Down) for as many lines as you want.
Just press Shift + Ctrl and hold it down, now left click your mouse anywhere as many times as you need to. NetBeans Development version allows you to edit multiple lines like in Sublime Text.
This is supported natively in NetBeans as of 7.1 http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13857
Use Command-Shift-R
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In Netbeans 7.2, this feature is available. If you are using Windows, you can toggle the rectangular selection by pressing the
Ctrl + Shift + R
Also there is an icon (dotted rectangle with an arrow pointer) in the Editor Toolbar.
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Natively NetBeans does not support rectangular/vertical selection, but there is a plugin available that does exactly that. Also - take a look at this discussion in the NetBeans issue tracker.
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