column selection

[myel]

Hi,

i would like to see a column selection mode .

[jps]

You can drag with the middle mouse button (generally the mouse wheel), or shift+right mouse button to do a column selection.

[myel]

Ah, didn't try that, thanks.

although it would be nice if this could be trigged via keyboard only too (alt+ up/down/left/right?)

[myel]

another thing:

when i have something like this

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foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar

foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar

foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar

foo foo bar bar
foo foo bar bar


and want to replace/select the first "bar" i get this

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foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
|
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
|
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar
|
foo foo |bar| bar
foo foo |bar| bar


Imho it would be nice if empty parts would be ignored when selecting columns, so only the bars would be selected.

[jps]

Sometimes you want the column selection to select empty areas, such as dragging to the right of the text to quickly get one cursor per line.

I'll take a look at changing the behaviour so that all the empty regions are removed as soon as there's at least one non-empty region in the column selection.

[dflock]

I'm new to Sublime so I'm not sure if this is already possible, but it would be really useful to be able to do column mode selection from the keyboard - maybe alt+arrows, rather than the normal shift+arrows - does anyone know if you can do this now, or if it's planned for the future?

[jps]

Welcome to the forums! There's no way to do it yet, but I'll add something for the next beta.

[vim]

Any update on binding column selection to keyboard shortcut?

[jps]

Still only half way there: As Sublimator mentioned, Ctrl+alt+up/down implements a sort-of column select.

[vim]

...and finish with shift to do the actual selection.
it's good enough, thanks