Komodo allows you to create block selections. I’d want to see something similar but it will work like a wrapper so you’ll get word splitting and everything. Think about it as of Microsoft Word text blocks. If the user hits the bottom limit of such a block, it simply expands itself by one line.
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| hello | something else
| this is a block | some text
| it works like a | you got the idea
| block of text | lorem ipsum
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