An improved "Select by"

[KaiMartin]

Select-by action is one of the most imporant tools during placement of components. It would be worth the effort to make it more powerfull.

Feature request: Add an option to Select-by, that pulls the selected objects under the mouse. On mouse click the collected components should be placed in a dispersed manner. This would facilitate placement of pcbs with lots of analog components.
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[KaiMartin (kmk-familieknaak)]

A small, but effective improvement: Add a keyboard shortcut for Select(ElementByName).

[Ben Jackson (ben.jackson)]

You can make a 'move selected to crosshair' using my distalign plugin (find it via gedasymbols.org)

I just made a mouse binding (in pcb-menu.res) like:

Right {
     # normal stuff here
     ctrl = { Align(X,Marks,Crosshair) Align(Y,Marks,Crosshair) }
}

Align() can do lots of other things, but if you choose the target coordinate to be the crosshair and do both axes, it is essentially 'warp to crosshair'