Fifesoft

And a word to say I appreciate your forum is open to guests: I am tired to create an account in a site just to leave a quick remark... I just hope for you that you are not flooded with spam, as we are in the [url=http://Processing.org]Processing[/url] forum, where registration is necessary!

Last note, for those searching the forum: this kind of selection is also called rectangular selection. The search had found no 'rectangular' word in the forum, so now we have more keywords! ;)

It is a bit disappointing, as I use this feature a lot in SciTE (based on Scintilla) and I saw it exists in JEdit (which uses its own method of drawing text, I think).
But I understand the technical difficulty.
I hope you will find a way to implement this someday... :-)
I appreciate RSTA to be lightweight yet powerful, and now with a nice license... :D Keep up the good work!

Yes, block selection currently is not possible. Perhaps in a future release, but it will take a fair amount of work. Sorry!

What i meant was block selection, like in textpad wherein we drag the mouse in combination with ALT-Key to select block of text in textarea. Can you provide me some hint.

Sorry, not currently possible. The Swing text package makes it very difficult to add this feature, it's hard-wired to expect linear selections only. Add a Feature Request on the SourceForge page if you want to see this in the future.

Is column selection possible in RSTA...