[TxMt] Remapping the Option Key (column editing)

[Grant Hollingworth]

* Barron Chugg <bchugg at gmail.com> [2007-03-18 01:01]:
>I don't work with column editing much at all, but I do instinctively
>use "select, drag, option key" to copy text.  But most of the time my
>clicking option gets me into column select mode.

Make sure you are already dragging the text when you push option.  I found that if I selected text, held the mouse button for dragging but didn't move the pointer, and then hit option, I would enter some kind of column-select copy drag mode.