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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If you only need the most recent lines, you can run the zed: open log command palette action to see the last 1000.

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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...