Vertical select

Do you sometimes have a list with columns displayed on your screen or on a text editor, and you only want to select one or a few of the columns, like so?

Option-Click to the rescue! (On Mac OS X only). Press Option key, click'n drag, copy, paste. Like so!



Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Dropbox
ED
Library
Movies
Music
Pictures
Public
Tera
data
dev
nltk_data

Also works on TextEdit and stuff. Not on browsers. (Not on Chrome, at least). Courtesy of Kaan's facebook post on Nov 16th, 2011:

just discovered that OSX Terminal supports vertical select (option-click)