[dzhiurgis]

Hey fellow HN'ers, I recently discovered you can select source in this (windows) terminal-like fashion by holding alt (i.e. https://imgur.com/a/XnCSd).

Does anyone know what is the purpose of this feature? I always disliked how difficult is to select something on windows cmd, this seems like anti-feature for me, but obviously I am missing something.

[noway421]

many text editors have that feature, while might be not that widely used or useful, it's still ported and implemented in many of them

[mavidser]

I've seen people use the same shortcut in sublime text to copy small code blocks (without copying the indentation).

[rasz]

column mode, very useful