Multi-line selection/editing

[kphunter]

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name: Multi-line selection/editing about: Adding code editor capabilities to a co-authoring environment title: 'Multi-line selection/editing' labels: enhancement assignees:

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We would like to use Etherpads for co-authoring markdown meeting minutes. Etherpad has the co-authoring covered. We're interested in making it easier to author markdown-styled documents by using multi-line selection/editing capabilities commonly found in code editors.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be nice to add functionality that enables multi-line editing and multi-selection. For example a keyboard shortcut that enables "select next", "insert on multiple lines", and "duplicate line".

Describe alternatives you've considered

• VS Code has plugins that enable co-authoring but they are heavy
• Word has co-authoring capability but it doesn't have multi-line selection or editing

Additional context This is essentially a mashup of the multi-line editing/selection commonly found in IDE's and the co-authoring capabilities of a word processing interface

Plugin? Very possibly ;)

[heldersepu]

Interesting suggestion ... VS Code if I'm not mistaken uses monaco, I worked on a PR integrating that into Swagger-UI: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/pull/9728

Here is the package https://www.npmjs.com/package/@monaco-editor/react That could be used for collaborating in more code like projects

[heldersepu]

@kphunter Can you try: https://monaco-react.surenatoyan.com/ see if that has all you need, ... something we can integrate

• I see the multi-line selection and edit (Alt+Click) working fine
• Ctrl+C on a line without selection copies the entire line an easy to duplicate a line
• Also the regex replace seem to be working fine

[kphunter]

@kphunter Can you try: https://monaco-react.surenatoyan.com/ see if that has all you need, ... something we can integrate

* I see the multi-line selection and edit (Alt+Click) working fine

* Ctrl+C on a line without selection copies the entire line an easy to duplicate a line

* Also the regex replace seem to be working fine

Fantastic - all the functionality that we would need is indeed there :). For reference on a Mac, I found these keyboard shortcuts work:

• copy entire line (⌘ + c)
• move entire line up/down (⌘ + ↑/↓)
• toggle comment (⌘ + /)
• multi-line cursor (⌥ + "click" OR ⌥ ⌘)
• select next identical item (^d)