[cyberferret]

Ah, Thanks - I see now the shortcut is [Alt-click] as opposed to [Cmd-click] in the other two editors. I just didn't dig around enough to find the right key combination. But I guess this shows how ingrained muscle memory and habits are hard to change, and why certain editors remain people's favourites.

[nullstyle]

Be warned though... this is one area where vscode is noticeably worse than atom or sublime; There's no alt-click-drag support so making a rectangular edit is much more work; you manually create the correct selection on each line. It's one of the few things I miss from Atom (and one of the main reasons I switched to textmate way way back).

[Already__Taken]

alt+shift+click-drag mate. Drag a rectangle and hit an arrow key seems fastest to make a column.