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How to do same behaving in Sublime Text as in Visual Studio, when using column selection for example if there is a line break in a text, the cursor in Sublime go to beginning of a line

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And this is behavior in Visual Studio desired behavior

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    You know you can indent and dedent blocks of text by selecting them and hitting Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-], right? You don't need to do multiple selections at all... Commented Sep 29, 2014 at 12:41
  • +1 to @MattDMo. That's the correct way of doing it. You can also use Shift+Tab to dedent by tabs, or add a tab to every line of the selected text just by pressing tab. Commented Sep 30, 2014 at 6:30
  • @sergioFC I turned my comment into an answer below, expanding on it quite a bit. Commented Sep 30, 2014 at 15:17

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While you may want this functionality for other reasons, it seems like you are using it to adjust the indentation of code blocks. Fortunately, there is a much easier way of doing this. Select the text for which you want to change the indentation, then press Ctrl] to increase the indentation (move block right), or Ctrl[ to decrease indentation (move block left). You can also increase indentation by selecting the desired lines and hitting Tab, and using ShiftTab to decrease it. The one place I can think of where multiple selections would come in handy is if, for some reason, you need to indent/dedent by fewer spaces than are in your tab stop. For example, if I have some code that's indented 3 spaces, and I want to change it to 4 (using the Indent Using Spaces setting in the View -> Indentation menu), I would use a multiple selection to put a cursor on each line, then use Space or Backspace to adjust spacing appropriately.

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