Feature request: Column Mode Selection with middle mouse button

[hubalazs]

I know the column mode selection can be done with Alt+Left mouse button. However, this could be simplified even more to avoid using the keyboard by pressing only the middle mouse button.
This idea comes from the following editors where this feature is already implemented: Atom, IntelliJ Idea, Sublime Text, VS Code

[sasumner]

So the middle mouse button refers to pressing down on the wheel, correct?
My mouse (Logitech) supports it but it feels horrible mechanically to actually do it, thus leading to the fact that if the described behavior were implemented, I would never use it. But I'm just one datapoint in the population.

Curious, though, as it is a text editor we are talking about -- are your hands ever very far from the keyboard such that a keyboard modifier to a mouse action is difficult?

Usual requests are the other kind: Where doing something requires a mouse action, and keyboard junkies want a non-mouse way.

I think this type of behavior would have to originate with Scintilla, and I didn't see anything in the Scintilla docs about it. I'm going to label this issue as a Scintilla dependency for now.

[vinsworldcom]

@donho
@sasumner

I can confirm this is NOT fixed in Notepad++ 7.9.3 Unicode Debug using the latest Scintilla 4.4.6 DLL.

Cheers.

[sasumner]

@vinsworldcom

You didn't have to comment on this one, as there is nothing in Scintilla that says this is supported.
My idea of marking it as scintilla-dependent came from, if it is going to be supported, Scintilla would be where it would reasonably happen.
Perhaps it was bad of me to mark it as Scintilla-dependent.