Column selection mode
Dragging the mouse selects a rectangle of text - a straight column down the page - instead of following the words.
When you would want it
Useful for lining up columns of data or stripping the same prefix off twenty lines.
Where to find it
- All Features → Column selection mode
- Settings → adcode.editing.columnSelection
How to use it, step by step
Off by default, because it is a mode: while it is on, every mouse drag makes a box instead of selecting text, and that is not something to switch on by accident.
- Turn it on when you need it and off again after.
Why this beats the usual way
Other editors give you this through a stack of extensions that each need installing, updating, and reconciling with each other - and half of them reset when a colleague opens the project. ADCode ships these behaviours in the box, on by default, identical on every machine that opens your folder, and each one is a single switch away if you disagree.
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