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Ideally you need a block based editor. Kate is the only modern editor that I’ve used that I know has a block mode. Any others?

Now the question is how do you get a block based editor on a webpage?

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I don't think I expect people to edit the diagrams on webpages, rather than locally using their favorite text editor.

Emacs and Vim have rectangle-editing commands, these are essential for reasonably convenient editing.

They're so useful, everyone should know them anyway: Need a column of '//' rather than '/* <long_comment_block> */', or vice-versa?. One click-drag and 4-5 keystrokes will do it.

notepad++ has block editing

Kate is the only modern editor that I’ve used that I know has a block mode. Any others?

Depending on how you define "modern", vim (and I assume neo-vim) support block-mode.

You can move rectangular blocks around in VSCode

mcedit in mc file manager has block mode selection (Shift-F3).

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