IntelliJ IDEA non standard caret behaviour

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Published on 2014-05-28T09:22:34Z Indexed on 2014/05/28 9:24 UTC
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I have an issue with IntelliJ IDEA when selecting a big amount of text, and I cannot find the parameter to set to change that. Here is an example of the situation:

My caret is on line 3
I scroll with the mouse wheel towards line 300
I press ctrl + shift
I press the left button of the mouse

Such an action would result in the text from line 3 to 300 being selected in all common editors (even in MS-Word I think), but not in IntelliJ.

Do you know how to set this right?
Thanks!

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