Line selection not working properly on VSCode

Question

My line selection is acting very weird on VSCode. It goes in this weird multi-line edit mode. I am unable to select multiple lines fully by dragging my mouse down on lines. Even when I use shift and down arrow it does not select the whole line.

Mouse drag selection not working:

Keyboard Shift + Down Arrow not working:

Answer 1

On Mac the solution was simple go to the menu "Selection" and deselect the option "Column Selection Mode".

Now it works as expected.

Answer 2

Two things I use:

• I select full lines by clicking and dragging in the 'numbers' columns

• For multi-line to work I use the menu option -> Selection -> Column Select Mode