title: How can I block select in Geany?
body: <p>I often need to select a block of text, like a leading character that occurs on many lines. LibreOffice has block selection. How can I do this in Geany?</p>
  
  <p>For example, I want to remove the pipe and the space at the beginning of each line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>| Create another 'Login Role' for the 'auth' user:
  | Role name: auth
  | Password: auth
  | Role privileges: Create database objects
  </code></pre>