Comment on “Code Editors” by purple_dj
The thinness of the space character was what I meant by being more difficult to use variable width for block indenting. It could get easy to accidentally miss a one-space indent error. A m/n sized space would fix that.
I use the column features a lot when (un)commenting large blocks (I avoid /* */ whenever possible), when defining enumerated lists so I can put a common naming prefix on all of them, when changing indentation, and sometimes when defining a whole bunch of variables of the same type. Slickedit's column mode actually lets you select a column and then start typing and have what you type be inserted on all rows simultaneously.
