Column selection copy and paste

Column selections

I am sure you are using the copy and paste technique every day you are using your Mac. Of course this a very impotant feature who nobody would ever like to miss again.

Normally you select the text either by keyboard or using the mouse to drag from the start to the end of the text you want to place into the clipboard. This way marks the text floating including it’s contents line breaks.

On a Mac you even can mark a text by drawing a rectangle! That makes sense if you need a exact text block to be marked. If you are working with text editors quite often, I am sure there was the one or other situation you needed that.

Just hold down the <OPTION> key before starting. The mouse pointer changes to a cross fade and then you know, that column selecting is activated. Now hightlight your wanted area, and that’s it.

Note: This is only working on Cocoa Text objects, like as in text/word processing fields.