my request would be block highlighting like in visual studio.
hold down alt and drag the mouse, .. text will highlight in a block like you were drawing a rectangle .. this is helpful when you need to delete things at the beginning of several lines but don't want to delete the entire line.
Oh. I think you can do that in column mode. Press alt-c then you can sort-of highlight in blocks or columns then delete. I use it quite a bit when cleaning up copy/paste screen shots from vt100 sessions.
*update* still only 3 articles have been submitted for the contest .. All 3 are from the same user. This isn't going to be much of a contest. lol .. Anyone else?