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As a room owner, I occasionally find it necessary to get non-germane content1 out of a chat room quickly. Fortunately, there's an excellent Move Messages button that works quite well.

I can even move multiple messages at once! Except, well, I use a Mac. And that means I can only move consecutive messages in a single action. Everyone else can choose nonconsecutive text all willy nilly.

CONTROL KEY! MY NEMESIS!

Y'see, Ctrl-click is identical to Right-Click on OS X. It should be trivial to also trigger for ⌘ Command-Click, which would be the standard way for mac users to select multiple items.

That'd be swell. Real, swell.

Incidentially, this is actually a fairly old dupe, but the new rules mean that closing this question as a dupe of that old one would be inappropriate. Might I recommend closing the old feature request as a duplicate of this question, once it's resolved?

1 I.E. Pony gifs.

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    +1 for freehand circles yaddayadda
    – user98085
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 0:09
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    Oh, come on, you can't expect SE to support every obscure toy OS there is...
    – yannis
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 0:12
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    -1 You're asking meta to help you censor pony gifs? This is unacceptable. Voting to close as against meta philosophy. ;-)
    – Manishearth
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 0:15
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    Hit us up in the JavaScript chat room in SO chat. ping for @rlemon , he wrote a user script that lets you select a user and bin all his recent messages - I think you'll find that really useful. Being a room that has to deal with a lot of help vampires, newbies trolls etc, we've developed some clever tricks :)
    – Benjamin Gruenbaum
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 1:04
  • Can you do Fn+Control+click, out of curiosity?
    – Ry-
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 4:02
  • @minitechη Negative. Does not work.
    – LessPop_MoreFizz
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 4:18
  • What would the correct modifier key be? To select/deselect a single item in a multi-selection, what key does the Mac use for that?
    – balpha StaffMod
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 7:07
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    @balpha The 'correct' way to do things, (at least in the finder), is Command-Click.
    – LessPop_MoreFizz
    Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 11:12

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I delved into the javascript. All you need to do is replace:

else if (a.ctrlKey) b.toggleClass("selected");

with

else if (a.ctrlKey || a.metaKey) b.toggleClass("selected");

Sadly this code is within a private scope, so it can't (easily) be userscripted.

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