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<head>
<title>Sequence Feature Settings Dialog Box</title>
</head>
are displayed). <strong><em>You can change the colour or
shading style used for a feature in the associated alignment by clicking
on its colour box.</em></strong></p>
-<p><strong><em>Feature settings pop-up menu</em></strong><br>
+ <p>
+ <a name="selectbyfeature"><strong><em>Selecting
+ alignment columns by feature</em></strong></a><br> <strong>Double-clicking
+ a feature type</strong> in the <strong>Feature
+ Settings</strong> dialog allows you to select columns in the
+ alignment that contain (or do not contain) features of that type. If a
+ region of the alignment is currently selected, then only features in
+ the current selection will be searched. The following keys affect the
+ way in which selections are made:<ul>
+ <li>Hold down <strong>Alt</strong> to select columns not
+ containing features of a particular type.
+ </li>
+ <li>Hold down <strong>Shift</strong> to add columns to the
+ current selection.
+ </li>
+ <li>Press <strong>Command/Windows key</strong> to toggle column
+ selection state (XOR)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ Options are also provided in the feature's pop-up menu (see below).
+ <br />
+ <em>Select columns by feature was added in Jalview 2.8.1</em>
+ </p>
+ <p><strong><em>Feature settings pop-up menu</em></strong><br>
<strong>Right-click</strong> on a feature to open a pop-up menu that
allows you to sort the alignment or current selection using that feature
type (see below), or toggle the type of colouring used for the feature.
features and groups on each sequence. To order the alignment using a
specific feature type, use the <em>sort by ..</em> entries in the pop-up
menu for that type.<br>
-<em>Feature sorting and graduated feature colouring was introduced
-in jalview 2.5</em></p>
+<em>Feature sorting and graduated feature colouring were introduced
+in Jalview 2.5</em></p>
<p><strong>Transparency and Feature Ordering</strong></p>
<p>It is important to realise that sequence features are often not
may be attached to one position along a stretch of sequence marked with
a secondary structure feature).</p>
<p>The ordering of the sequence features in the dialog box list is
-the order used by jalview for rendering sequence features. A feature at
+the order used by Jalview for rendering sequence features. A feature at
the bottom of the list is rendered <em>below</em> a feature higher up in
the list.<br>
<em><strong>You can change the order of a feature by
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