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editor: Support both cursor and mouse based columnar selection (#32779)
Closes #32584

In https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/31888, we changed the
default `opt + shift` behavior to start columnar selection from the
mouse position (Sublime-like behavior) instead of from the existing
selection head (VSCode-like behavior).

It turns out there is a use case for creating columnar selection from an
existing selection head as well, such as creating a consecutive
multi-cursor from existing selection head with just a click instead of
dragging.

This PR brings back columnar selection from the selection head via `opt
+ shift`, while retaining columnar selection from the mouse position,
which is now mapped to the new `cmd + shift` binding.

Note: If you like to swap the binding, you can use [existing multi
cursor modifier
setting](https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed?highlight=multi_cursor_modifier#multi-cursor-modifier).

Release Notes:

- Added `cmd + shift` to start columnar selection from the mouse
position.
- Restored `opt + shift` to create columnar selection (or consecutive
multi-cursor on click) from the selection head.
2025-06-16 10:13:25 +05:30
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.cloudflare docs: Document context servers (#21170) 2024-11-25 11:05:14 -05:00
.config workspace-hack: remove openssl from remote_server (#27990) 2025-04-03 00:49:07 +00:00
.github ci: Require check_docs (#32470) 2025-06-13 13:06:42 -04:00
.zed Add crates/assistant_tools/src/evals/fixtures to file_scan_exclusions (#32211) 2025-06-06 06:56:41 +00:00
assets Include full abs paths of worktrees in system prompt (#32725) 2025-06-15 15:45:26 +02:00
crates editor: Support both cursor and mouse based columnar selection (#32779) 2025-06-16 10:13:25 +05:30
docs Fixed typo in SQL language documentation (#32764) 2025-06-15 19:05:52 +00:00
extensions Fix syntax highlighting conflicts with certain glsl types (#32022) 2025-06-06 20:58:18 +00:00
legal ci: Check for broken links (#30844) 2025-06-06 09:39:35 +00:00
nix nix: Make zeditor symlink in package output (#31354) 2025-05-26 08:59:52 -07:00
script ci: Restore lychee link check. Only validate internal links (#32463) 2025-06-10 11:20:07 -04:00
tooling Use upstream cpal (#32571) 2025-06-11 22:44:20 +03:00
.clinerules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.cursorrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add PR 15352 to .git-blame-ignore-revs (#30870) 2025-05-17 11:35:58 +00:00
.gitattributes Prevent GitHub from displaying comments within JSON files as errors (#7043) 2024-01-29 23:11:25 -05:00
.gitignore Update nixpkgs, add direnv to gitignore (#30292) 2025-05-13 01:45:22 -07:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap (#30874) 2025-05-17 12:34:42 +00:00
.prettierrc ci: Add check for formatting default.json (#30034) 2025-05-06 18:55:26 +00:00
.rules Add channel reordering functionality (#31833) 2025-06-04 16:56:33 +00:00
.windsurfrules Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
Cargo.lock Include .NET project identification in telemetry (#32769) 2025-06-15 17:00:34 -04:00
Cargo.toml client: Fix an issue where non-IP proxy URLs didn’t resolve correctly (#32664) 2025-06-13 15:17:49 +08:00
CLAUDE.md Initial .rules file for agent with symlinks for other rules file paths (#29014) 2025-04-17 23:41:23 +00:00
clippy.toml Restructure agent context (#29233) 2025-04-24 21:29:33 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Remove community content from docs and point to zed.dev (#19895) 2024-10-29 09:44:58 -04:00
compose.yml Add Postgrest to Docker Compose (#16498) 2024-08-19 20:50:45 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Allow icon themes to provide their own file associations (#24926) 2025-02-15 00:35:13 +00:00
Cross.toml Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
debug.plist WIP 2023-12-14 09:25:14 -07:00
default.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
docker-compose.sql collab: Setup database for LLM service (#15882) 2024-08-06 17:18:08 -04:00
Dockerfile-collab chore: Bump Rust to 1.87 (#30739) 2025-05-15 22:28:52 +00:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore ci: Move collab to Dockerfile-collab (#18515) 2024-09-30 16:14:26 -04:00
Dockerfile-cross Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-distros Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
flake.lock nix: Refactor gh-actions and re-enable nightly builds (#31489) 2025-05-27 11:34:15 -07:00
flake.nix nix: Add job names and garnix substitutor (#31625) 2025-05-28 13:32:12 -07:00
LICENSE-AGPL Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL Licenses: change license fields in Cargo.toml to AGPL-3.0-or-later. (#5535) 2024-01-27 13:51:16 +01:00
livekit.yaml Add LiveKit server to Docker Compose (#7907) 2024-02-16 10:49:48 -05:00
lychee.toml ci: Check for broken links (#30844) 2025-06-06 09:39:35 +00:00
Procfile Refactor: Restructure collab main function to prepare for new subcommand: serve llm (#15824) 2024-08-05 12:07:38 -07:00
Procfile.postgrest Fix llm queries (#16006) 2024-08-08 17:21:38 -07:00
README.md Remove Repology badge from README (#30857) 2025-05-17 07:01:46 +00:00
renovate.json renovate: Require dependency dashboard approval for updates (#29065) 2025-04-18 18:44:30 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml Build zed-remote-server on FreeBSD (#29561) 2025-06-05 11:59:10 -04:00
shell.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
typos.toml editor: Handle more completion sort cases (#30690) 2025-05-14 18:49:39 +05:30

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