On Apr 1, 2005, at 17:40, Patrick Burleson wrote:
Um, I think the point was *not* to use the mouse. I would like to know that trick as well.
Make your selection, press and release the option modifier key once, and the selection turns into column-mode. You can keep extending the selection with shift + arrows, and it'll stay as a column selection (and allows the selection to go past newlines/inside tabs etc.).