keyboard shortcuts - Vertical/Column text select in PyCharm?

Question

Is it possible to select text vertically/in a column in PyCharm? You can do it in Visual Studio and Notepad++ by holding down alt+arrow keys.

The documentation describes how to do it with the mouse, but there's no mention of keyboard options.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/webhelp/selecting-text-in-the-editor.html#d306531e464

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20510108/vertical-column-text-select-in-pycharm

Answer 1

Press Ctrl+Shift+A (Find Action feature) and type column. The first result is Column Selection Mode Alt+Shift+Insert. After that, select text with keyboard (by holding Shift)