How to add to the selection ?

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Greg Edwards <gedwards2 at gmail.com>:

> Team,
>
> I was sure that Nedit could "add to the current selection", so that I
> could eg. go down a text file and copy sequences of lines from here
> and there, and then paste them all into a new buffer as one unit. But
> I can't find the command or any refernce to it in the doco. Am I right
> ?
>
> Thanks !
> GE.

No. You can only select a single contiguous range or rectangular block
at a time. You can extend a selection (using shift), but you only get
one.

There is a way to do what you want quite easily, though. If you split
your window into two panes (using the Window menu), you can set your
destination position in one pane and move around in the other, using
the scroll bar. In this source pane, you can "secondary select" text
with the middle mouse button (it appears underlined). When you let go
of the mouse button, this text will be copied to the cursor's position
in the destination window. (Use escape while selecting if you want to
cancel the operation.) This works between documents too, in different
windows. For more details about using secondary selections, see the
NEdit menu entry Help> Basic Operation> Using the Mouse. (It's one of
my favourite NEdit features, and pretty unique.)

Tony