1553329 - vertical block text selection

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement, P3)

Description

[natnael.kahssay]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

I held each combination of modifier keys in the super set of modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) along with clicking and dragging the mouse down a block of text.

Actual results:

the text was selected horizontally, i.e, in a raster scan fashion, expected from normal selection of text.

Expected results:

the text should have been selected in columns much like block-select feature in atom and column selection in sublime.

Comment 1

[Edgar Chen [:edgar] (PTO untils 8/11, slow response)]

It looks like other browsers don't support block-select, either. And they don't even support multiple ranges, e.g. clicking and dragging the mouse on several different blocks of text with holding ctrl key.

Comment 2

[natnael.kahssay]

I have tried other browsers and they also don't support it with exception for tables. I think it would be a somewhat useful feature to have since it complements vertical selection.

Comment 3

[natnael.kahssay]

(In reply to Edgar Chen [:edgar] (parental leave ~ 7/31) from comment #1)

It looks like other browsers don't support block-select, either. And they don't even support multiple ranges, e.g. clicking and dragging the mouse on several different blocks of text with holding ctrl key.