<p dir="auto">Please add the feature to select a column of text with the mouse (like Alt + LMB (Left mouse button), or Shit + RMB) like Sublime Text...</p>
<p dir="auto">There is a package that provides this functionality (<a href="https://atom.io/packages/Sublime-Style-Column-Selection" rel="nofollow">Sublime-Style-Column-Selection</a>), but I think it's better that this feature should be provided by atom itselft</p>
<p dir="auto">In plenty editors, doing <code class="notranslate">left-alt</code> (left option) and selecting text will take a slice of that text:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020145/21a1ced6-df9b-11e3-9cf2-70371ca5fee1.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020145/21a1ced6-df9b-11e3-9cf2-70371ca5fee1.gif" alt="sublime" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Notice that only characters are selected, empty lines are ignored. Also, after selecting with <code class="notranslate">left-alt</code>, there should be multi-cursors at the end of each selection:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020149/2d06c1c8-df9b-11e3-9a39-226039d0f777.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020149/2d06c1c8-df9b-11e3-9a39-226039d0f777.gif" alt="reslice" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">The GIF are from Sublime, the same behavior is observed in TextMate, IntelliJ, vim (visual selection).</p>
<p dir="auto">The current behavior in Atom is to perform a normal text selection:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020155/3bbc4512-df9b-11e3-97a8-1acab2dd686f.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020155/3bbc4512-df9b-11e3-97a8-1acab2dd686f.gif" alt="atom" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>