Column Select

2011-10-01 Thread AlexBalakersky
Am I missing something or this option has been changed? I am trying to do a column select in 10.0.1 and it is not working. Hold Option key and drag the mouse, right? That's what the manual says. But I am not getting any difference in selection behavior whether I hold Option, Command, Shift, Ctrl

Re: Column Select

2011-10-01 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
Make sure soft wrap is disabled (off) when trying to make the selection... common issue... Ted On Oct 1, 2011, at 7:49 PM, AlexBalakersky wrote: Am I missing something or this option has been changed? I am trying to do a column select in 10.0.1 and it is not working. Hold Option key

Re: Column Select

2011-10-01 Thread Ken Lanxner
alexbalaker...@gmail.com (AlexBalakersky) wrote on 10/1/11 11:49 AM Am I missing something or this option has been changed? I am trying to do a column select in 10.0.1 and it is not working. Hold Option key and drag the mouse, right? That's what the manual says. But I am not getting any

column select sometimes unavailable?

2010-07-20 Thread Marc
Folks - For the life of me, I can't figure this one out and I see no discussion of it anywhere: Now and then, I'm unable to use column select; I press the Option key and not only does the cursor not change to the crosshairs, a vertical drag selects by line rather than column. Interestingly

Re: column select sometimes unavailable?

2010-07-20 Thread Semper Fidelis
to use column select; I press the Option key and not only does the cursor not change to the crosshairs, a vertical drag selects by line rather than column. Interestingly, this seems to affect TextMate as well as BBEdit. The Option keys (I've tried both) do work; ex: I can type a bullet via

Re: column select sometimes unavailable?

2010-07-20 Thread Marc
On Jul 20, 3:16 pm, Semper Fidelis semper.fide...@mac.com wrote: Did you check to make sure that Soft Wrap Text is turned off? Column selection only works when Soft Wrap Text is disabled. Holy crow; I had no idea!! And now I see that it is indeed mentioned in the manual, in BOTH the