*Almost* perfect on the Alt-C and Ins, that works, but in that mode, if you Alt-M to mark, and then Ins, it *also* acts in columnar fashion!!

The original Brief would leave the cursor at the end of the insertion (same line, to the right of inserted text) if the insertion derived from Alt-M, and ...

Nice! Thanks. Should have looked harder I guess.

Is there a "make F5 and Shift-F5 work like Brief" checkbox somewhere too? I'm used to being able to search and then search again without onerous checkboxes and dialogs popping up. :-)

It would basically default to "Entire file" checkbox, and no ...

Huh. Not for me it doesn't. Maybe there's a setting somewhere...are you using Brief or BriefEx? Both do the same (wrong) thing for me. If I start with:

1234
34
34

Then Alt-C and mark the "12", put the cursor in front of the 2nd line "34", and press Ins, my cursor ends up still on the 2nd line ...

In Brief, if you mark a columnar chunk of text using Alt-C, copy it to the clipboard with +, then insert it in the file using Ins, the cursor ends up at the columnar "end" of the inserted chunk, at the same column number, which is very useful behavior if you want to repeatedly insert the same column ...