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Rectangular Selection and Editing in Sakura Editor

Introducing how to perform rectangular selection and editing in Sakura Editor, a Japanese-made text editor beloved by many programmers. With rectangular selection, you can insert characters at the beginning of lines, batch comment out multiple lines, uncomment, and more in Sakura Editor. Select in rectangular range selection mode and type any character.

Shou Arisaka
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Oct 4, 2025

Introducing how to perform rectangular selection and editing in Sakura Editor, a Japanese-made text editor beloved by many programmers.

With rectangular selection, you can insert characters at the beginning of lines, batch comment out multiple lines, uncomment, and more in Sakura Editor.

Select in rectangular range selection mode and type any character. (# for Ruby) Alt+[โ†‘], Alt+[โ†“], Alt+[โ†], Alt+[โ†’] also activate rectangular range selection mode.

Rectangular selection and editing is a feature that allows you to input text and copy/cut/paste not only horizontally but also vertically at the same time.

http://sakura-editor.sourceforge.net/htmlhelp/HLP000115.html

Syntax Highlighting and Color Settings

Sakura Editor color coding method and settings Individual color settings are possible for programming languages like Ruby, JS, and others. See references below.

http://supportdoc.net/support-sakura/ruby.html http://cly7796.net/wp/other/setting-of-sakura-editor/

Background Color Settings

Background Color > Unify Background Color allows you to unify the overall background and text background to the same color. A recommended color thatโ€™s easy on the eyes is a grayish white.

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