RM/COBOL feature

While not a feature of the CodeWatch editor, you could use Notepad (free), which has the capability of doing multi-line edits.  In Notepad , one uses Alt Shift while making a selection to select a rectangle for multi-line edits.  Characters typed affect all lines in the rectangle.  The rectangle can be zero columns wide, in which case characters typed are inserted in all lines.  [I usually use *> (tail comment) in column 8 or 12 instead of column 7.  Personal preference - I like the look.)

May not be the absolute ideal, but Notepad is easy and free.  And, with a wide variety of plugins, Notepad is useful in many situations.  I use it for side-by-side file comparison (diff), XML editing (including running XML transforms), looking at files in hex, seeing exact representations of whitespace characters, etc

Yes, ok with Notepad , but I insist that the feature must be considered by Micro Focus in its editors. Thanks for the answer, Tom.