Hello, World! I quite often unwillingly trigger so...

# intellij

[bod]

Hello, World! I quite often unwillingly trigger some kind of Column Selection Mode, when typing some combination of alt and down arrow. But the only shortcut I see for CSM is alt shift 8, so I don't get it. Any idea of what it could be?

[wasyl]

Perhaps you’re triggering Clone Caret [Above|Below] option? Not sure what’s the default shortcut for it (if any)

[bod]

it looks like there's no shortcut for it on my setup

[wasyl]

So what’s exactly the issue, how does it look like? There’s three more things I know of:
- selecting with mouse cursor but pressing middle button instead of left, triggers CSM
- selecting text using left mouse button but with left alt pressed triggers CSM
- pressing alt twice (hold second time) and pressing up/down arrows triggers caret cloning mode

[bod]

that's it!!!!!!! The third one! Good catch!. Do you know if there's a way to disable it?

[wasyl]

I recall chasing it for quite some time myself back when I started using IJ 🙂 I don’t know if there’s a way to disable it, I think I just stopped pressing alt twice 🤔

[wasyl]

Actually there is:

[bod]

wooooow! Thank you so much!

[bod]

this thing has been bothering me for ... years (I kid you not)

[bod]

never could understand how I was triggering it

[wasyl]

It is pretty obscure, doesn’t even show up in presentation assistant

[bod]

indeed!

[poohbar]

@bod I have never ever triggered this by accident. I am just wondering, what are you doing when you accidently trigger this?

[bod]

The thing is I've set alt cmd down to "select word" and I do it all the time (find it handy). So inevitably I guess I press alt twice without realizing