Two little tidbits: MarsEdit and TextMate

OK, since when could you column-select in MarsEdit? Open up a post to edit with some text in it. Move your cursor over the words: the usual text-selection bar. Now hold down Option, and crosshairs appear. Select at will.

It doesn’t seem to want to let you edit all of the selection as it does in, say, TextMate, so I wonder if it’s on purpose or not, or if it’s still to come. (See update below.)

The other thing I figured out is, while using the Edit in TextMate command (and this goes for any app enabled with that command), you can select a portion of the text field contents to edit, rather than bringing the entire block in. Handy for smaller edits.

Update: just noticed it in a Journler field as well, so I’m guessing it’s an artifact of new Cocoa text fields?