How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, Textpad,etc) and IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc)

• Notepad++, Visual Studio, and some others: Alt + drag.
• vim: Ctrl + v or (bizarrely enough) Quad-click-drag. In windows: Ctrl + Q (since Ctrl + V is the standard for paste)

In Kate toggle Ctrl + shift + B .

In Netbeans 7.1 can select columns (Rectangular Selection) with Ctrl + shift + R . There is also a button in the code editor available.

This is how rectangular selections look like: