Column Selection on Drag etc

[MarketingPip]

Describe the feature

It would be great to drag a box over an exact multi-row section without selecting entire lines (for copying ASCII art etc and much more).

Use Case

For properly copying lines.

Proposed Solution

Select, click and hold, drag... such as TextMate offers (on hot key / plugin etc)?

Other Information

Do not think this exist already. My apologizes if it does.

Acknowledgements

• [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request
• [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change

ACE version used

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[nightwing]

It is possible to do this by holding alt key

[MarketingPip]

@nightwing - wow! :D Just what I needed.

tbh - I feel like Ace needs a good semantic search engine for documentation etc.... (been hard for long time to find things being so big).

[MarketingPip]

@nightwing - should this be kept open or am I missing something. Still do not see anywhere in keyboard shortcuts etc.

[MarketingPip]

@nightwing and is there any way we can take the selected text and drag / replace with the exact same columns etc on different text?

[nightwing]

We did not add specific documentation for it, because it works the same as it does in other editors like sublime text or textmate. Dragging currently does not work for multiple selections, i see how it can be a useful addition but not sure if it should be done automatically for text dragged from multiselect or with a press of shortcut.