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Multiline comments support

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing shift-key line-selection implementation referenced in the issue and the discussion in issue #180. Compare the requested mouse-drag behavior with GitHub's line selection and inspect the relevant diff component code. Done means the intended drag interaction is implemented and verified alongside the existing selection behavior.

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Description

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hey @otakustay, First of all Thanks for going ahead and making the changes also, really appreciate it.
and sorry, for being inactive for a while I got busy in some other things.

I checked your implementation and selecting lines with shift key does look good but I wanted to know If we can have something more similar to what Github has which is selecting lines by clicking and dragging the mouse?
Let me know your thoughts on this and meanwhile I'm also going through the codebase to check the possibilities.

Originally posted by @msk4862 in https://github.com/otakustay/react-diff-view/issues/180#issuecomment-1387481871

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