[FEATURE] Free text selection.

[RodrigoTR04]

Feature request is to be able to freely select and edit text within a block of text without being forced onto the next line.

Additional context:

Feature is similar/identical to what Notepad++ does when you hold Alt and select with the mouse cursor. The user is able to select a rectangle akin to what is possible and clicking and holding in a desktop with icons. Notepad++ also allows user to write the same text to the multiple lines selected.

[pbek]

I guess that would be very hard to achieve in a QPlainTextEdit.

[RodrigoTR04]

From what I researched in other Qt editors, not sure if this applies to QPlainTextEdit specifically, Kate does it with Ctrl + Shift + B as a toggle. I couldn't find if Kate also uses QPlainTextEdit, since I'm not a developer myself.