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Column selection no longer works with Alt key

#1

I recently updated to ST3 build 3080, and all of a sudden my “column selection” stopped working. Forgive me if I’m using the wrong term, but this is the feature where you (previously) clicked and dragged while holding the alt-key to make a rectangular selection on the document.

The feature still works if I hold down the middle mouse button, but I much prefer to use the Alt key.

Any ideas why this occurred?

In the below GIF, I’m holding down the middle mouse button (where previously I’d hold down ‘Alt’)

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Build 3080
#2

According to Default/Default (OSX).sublime-mousemap this hasn’t changed (taken from 3082):

    // Alt + Mouse 1 Column select
    {
        "button": "button1", "modifiers": "alt"],
        "press_command": "drag_select",
        "press_args": {"by": "columns"}
    },
    {
        "button": "button1", "modifiers": "alt", "super"],
        "press_command": "drag_select",
        "press_args": {"by": "columns", "additive": true}
    },
    {
        "button": "button1", "modifiers": "alt", "shift", "super"],
        "press_command": "drag_select",
        "press_args": {"by": "columns", "subtractive": true}
    },

Try to disable packages?

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#3

YES! Thank you, and sorry for the mis-diagnosis.

This resulted from a package I recently installed, I should’ve checked that first. (It just happened to coincide with my first ST3 update in a long, long time).

Thanks for the quick response :smile:

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#4

I don’t have any updates installed but still I am facing this issue,for
Sublime Text 2 2.0.2
the latest version

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