Selecting When in box mode you can create a box by clicking and dragging the mouse. The mouse cursor changes into a cross-hair. You can tell you are in box mode when the Atom selections disappear and a red box appears (unless it is outside of the visible area). Installation Install box-edit using apm install box-edit.Įntering/Exiting Box Mode The command to toggle box mode on and off is box-edit:toggle which by default is bound to Alt-S. So by switching back and forth you can create Atom cursor-based rectangles like other packages do. When opening a box, Atom cursors are converted into a box, and when closing the box it is converted back into Atom selections.Useful for comments to the right of multiple lines. A box can be turned into a character-based editor (an html textarea) which allows typing wrapped text into a rectangle.The box mode supports basic editor commands such as cut, copy, paste, and undo/redo.The box can be filled with any character, such as a space, to blank an area.A box can be selected, cut, and pasted anywhere, even to the right of lines.Box-edit supports virtual spaces to the right of lines which solves a problem found in rectangular selection tools that use Atom cursors/selections. You can cut, paste, insert, etc., on a box instead of character strings. When in box mode the Atom cursors disappear and a new red box cursor takes over. An Atom package to edit rectangular areas supports short lines.īox-edit provides for selecting and editing a box (rectangular area) of text in the Atom editor.

What is box edit