Cursor past end of line, has been an often requested feature, over the years.
It is I think a Scintilla drawback, which instead snaps EOL.
In some tasks, this is very annoying.
There is a workaround/slight kludge.
The new Column Edit Alt-C, seems to add vertically, from Cursor, to LastLine.
( side Q: is there really no way to control the Column Editor LineCount? )
If you place Cursor at Start-Line, New end, and Alt-C [white space],
you have inserted a column of white-spaces to last-line, and that column,
is leftpadded (so now the workspace is a white sheet)
Now you can Edit as you desire, with your well-behaved XY cursor!!
If those trailing spaces are a problem, Edit.TrimTrailingSpace removes them.
Request:
Can this be added as a specific menu-feature.
(as it related to Edit.TrimTrailingSpace, perhaps under Edit tab ?)
Edit.AppendTrailingSpace would be a symmetrical name ?
Smart would be to :
Allow Selected Text to be Trailing Space appended to
a) all match Longest Line in selection (document, if no selection)
b) all to a Defined Line length
that side-steps the Scintilla drawback, and gets a white-sheet cursor
behaviour, when needed.
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Cursor past end of line, has been an often requested feature, over the years.
It is I think a Scintilla drawback, which instead snaps EOL.
In some tasks, this is very annoying.
There is a workaround/slight kludge.
The new Column Edit Alt-C, seems to add vertically, from Cursor, to LastLine.
( side Q: is there really no way to control the Column Editor LineCount? )
If you place Cursor at Start-Line, New end, and Alt-C [white space],
you have inserted a column of white-spaces to last-line, and that column,
is leftpadded (so now the workspace is a white sheet)
Now you can Edit as you desire, with your well-behaved XY cursor!!
If those trailing spaces are a problem, Edit.TrimTrailingSpace removes them.
Request:
Can this be added as a specific menu-feature.
(as it related to Edit.TrimTrailingSpace, perhaps under Edit tab ?)
Edit.AppendTrailingSpace would be a symmetrical name ?
Smart would be to :
Allow Selected Text to be Trailing Space appended to
a) all match Longest Line in selection (document, if no selection)
b) all to a Defined Line length
that side-steps the Scintilla drawback, and gets a white-sheet cursor
behaviour, when needed.