[TxMt] Re: Column Selections

[Steve King]

On 2011-04-28 17:45, Dru Kepple wrote:
> You can select a linear selection as normal (with the keyboard) and then just tap the option key.  It will turn the linear selection into a columnar selection by using the start and end points of the linear selection as opposing corners of the block.  Tap again to go back.

Nice, but it doesn't always work for me.  It *usually* works, but 
sometimes I have to pound on the option key a few times to get it to 
take. This happens both with my laptop's built-in keyboard and the 
external keyboard, so I don't think it's just a bad key.

One of the first things I did with TM was to make a set of macros: 
Select Block bound to ^B (moveRightAndModifySelection, 
toggleColumnSelection), Select Line bound to ^L (selectHardLine), and 
Select Nothing bound to ESC (moveRightAndModifySelection, moveLeft). I 
don't remember for sure, but I might have had to edit the *.tmMacro 
files by hand to get exactly the behavior I wanted.

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