Multi-cursor "drag" is not working

[wgordon17]

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The features page describes multi-cursor editing as being available with

the mouse by alt-clicking/dragging

I am successfully able to hold the "option" key and click in several places to get multiple cursors, however holding the "option" key and dragging the mouse performs a "normal" select operation, and does not create multiple cursors.

Environment

Zed: v0.118.1 (Zed)
OS: macOS 14.2.1
Memory: 32 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

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[maxbrunsfeld]

When you have 1 or more selection, you can add a new selection by holding down alt and dragging over a new range in the editor.

[JosephTLyons]

Hey @wgordon17, what happens if you hold down shift-opt, then start your drag?

[wgordon17]

@JosephTLyons that definitely helps, adding in shift. This is definitely an improvement, but it's still slightly...off from my expectations. shift-opt assumes that I want all cursors in the same column, but if I'm trying to drag-to-add multi-cursors at the end of all lines, then things go weird. If I start on a line that's too long, it'll just skip the shorter lines altogether. And if I start on a line that's too short, then it will select the text that's longer while also placing the cursor at the end of the line

[ipearx]

This thwarted me to, I'd expect it to behave like Sublime:

• Dragging vertically while holding option should add multiple cursors
• Dragging vertically while holding option past the end of multiple lines should put multiple cursors at the end of the line
• Dragging while holding option diagonally should add multiple cursors and select the region

One thing that sublime does that's annoying that could be an improvement:

• I use line wrap on most of the time, it would be great if the multi-cursor select could skip the wrapped lines, i.e. treat them like they aren't wrapped. I may be asking for the impossible here...

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[wgordon17]

Still reproducible

[omergoktas]

Hey @wgordon17, what happens if you hold down shift-opt, then start your drag?

Why do we have to press shift additionally to drag and select multiple lines? Why simply pressing alt is not enough? I can't even modify this weird behavior. My settings are as follows:

{
  // The key to use for adding multiple cursors
  // Currently "alt" or "cmd_or_ctrl"  (also aliased as
  // "cmd" and "ctrl") are supported.
  "multi_cursor_modifier": "alt"
}

See? -it is not alt+shift or something; it's just alt. Plus, look at this other weird behavior; when the cursor is at the end of the line, the multiline drag assumes that I want to start selecting from the end of the line instead of where I click on to start dragging:

Ekran.Kaydi.2024-12-28.18.15.53.mov

There are two separate bugs as far as I am concered. Pressing shift should not be mandatory, and the multiline selection should start from where I click on.

Also, multi_cursor_modifier setting is not even documented here; just so you know.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if I was mistaken at anything.