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Mouse Button 2 and column pastes

#1

Hello Sublime Forum,

I’m just now evaluating your product and I was changing Mouse button 2 to do column select. I have two questions:

  1. Is there a way to designate moving the mouse as a modifier? This way I can have the context menu pop up if the button is clicked, while still having right-click and drag do column select. It’s not a big deal as I have a context menu button on my keyboard that works just fine, but it seems like it would be a good idea.

  2. Is there a setting I can change to make pasting work properly for column selections if there is no current selection? Basically I want it to work in other programs, in that if I have CUT a column selection, moved the cursor, and then hit PASTE, it should paste the column selection as a column selection and not as a block selection. If I’m working on a 1,000 line data file and I want to move the data from column 25 to column 250, I don’t want to have to make a zero-width column selection to get the paste to work right. Pasting columns as columns seems like the much more common thing to do (it would be nice to be able to past the column select as a block selection occasionally, but it’s way the less common thing).

Thanks!

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#2
  1. Normally the way you would do a “column paste” like that is you’d copy whatever you wanted, then move all the selections right (with the right arrow key or whatever) and then paste.
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