block/column selection with mouse

[Thomas Adam]

2009/4/24 Sebastian Stark <seb-rxvt at biskalar.de>:
>
> Usually, if you have table-like output and want a certain column of it you
> would use awk. But sometimes it would be cool to be able to mark a column
> with the mouse and paste it somewhere else, similar to ctrl-v in vim.
>
> Would that be possible to do in a perl extension?

Err, this is currently possible, if I understand you correctly.  Just
hold down "Alt" as you select something to do so in columns.

-- Thomas Adam