block/column selection with mouse

[Thomas Adam]

[ Don't cull the damn Cc list, please.  I'm adding the rxvt-unicode
mailing list back in. ]

2009/4/24 Sebastian Stark <seb-rxvt at biskalar.de>:
>
> On 24.04.2009, at 11:16, Thomas Adam wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks, that is nice to hear!
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work for me with v9.05 on Mac/intel. It just does
> normal selection when I press alt.
>
> Let's see what happens if I upgrade to a more recent version of urxvt.

More likely on your Mac (ugh!) it's a different key.

-- Thomas Adam