Finally, eclipse gets column mode (block select) in Galileo.
This is where you can select a whole column of text, and when you type it edit the same section of each line all at once.
To try it out just hit Alt-shift-A in the java editor. All the good stuff works - and copy/paste does what you'd expect.
So why column mode? While it doesn't actually give you anything that a search/replace doesn't it just seems less distracting than having to switch to a find/replace, then get back to what you were actually doing in the first place.
It's one of those little features that you rarely need to use, but when you do, make you're life just that tiny bit better.
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