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ciriarte
ciriarte

Reputation: 1483

Keyboard Column Selection for Sublime Text 2 on Windows

I've been trying to get column selection via keyboard bindings working on Windows.

The Default (Windows).sublimekeymap says this:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+up"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} },
{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+down"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} },

And it is also documented here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/column_selection.html However, every time I try to do column selection via the keyboard it doesn't work. Is this an environment specific problem or an actual bug? Or perhaps I'm doing something wrong.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 12921

Answers (4)

José Gabriel González
José Gabriel González

Reputation: 338

I think that is really late but, I found the following the most effective solution.

  1. Put this in your "Key bindings defaults" and save it

    { "keys": ["alt+shift+up"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} },
{ "keys": ["alt+shift+down"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} },

  2. After, you can use the following to make a column selection

    Alt + Shift + [Down | Up]

Upvotes: 9

fraxel
fraxel

Reputation: 35269

Assuming you are getting multiple cursors when you go up in a block of text with Ctrl+Alt+Up, you then need to use Shift+Left and Shift+Right to make the column selection.

If you are not getting multiple cursors at all, try changing the keybindings just to up and down, see if that works. It may be that your windows environment is using Ctrl+Alt+Up` for something else and prevents its use in Sublime.

Upvotes: 20

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 717

I had the same problem because of Winamp Global Hotkeys. Just remove that key combination from Winamp Preferences and it will work.

Upvotes: 1

Ethan J. Brown
Ethan J. Brown

Reputation: 2338

Not the right spot for this exactly, but if you RDP into a VM, the defaults won't work either.

I've redefined the line reordering binding of Ctrl+Shift for this purpose

{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+up"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} },
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+down"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} }

Upvotes: 10

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