title: "Column Mode" in gedit?
body: <p>I'm transitioning from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraEdit" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UltraEdit</a> on Windows to gedit on Linux. So far, the experience is great (there's a lot here for a free tool), but there's one indispensable feature of UltraEdit I can't seem to find a way to replicate -- Column Mode.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials_power_tips/ultraedit/column_mode.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Column Mode</a> is a feature available in UltraEdit by pressing <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>. With it enabled you can highlight text in a single column over many lines, allowing you to edit many lines at once (e.g., to comment out a section of text, prepend some string to aligned variable names, or for many other reasons).  It's saved me countless hours of find-and-replace or repetitive manual editing of consecutive lines, and I feel very awkward in gedit without it.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything like this (via a plugin probably) in gedit?</p>