Can't multi-select text with CMD key

[Silly John Fatty]

When I was on High Sierra, I could multi-select text by first selecting a first part I'd want to select, then hit the command key, then select another piece of text anywhere else.

This doesn't work for me, it always unselects the first piece of text.

Anyone else have this issue? Is this a Ventura thing?

 

[Ara_Sarat]

same here!

 

[DeltaMac]

Depends on the app that you might use.
I went back to Yosemite (OS X 10.10.5), and can't do that Command key to select non-contiguous text in Safari, but does work in TextEdit

In the High Sierra that you mentioned, Safari does not allow non-contiguous selection; however, TextEdit does allow non-contiguous selection.

Returning to Ventura (vers 13.5 beta), still does not work in Safari, also does not work in TextEdit - but I can select non-contiguous text in the Notes app.
Does not work in Pages, but LibreOffice allows that selection.

So, that text selection "feature" may or may not function, depends on the app that you would be using.

And, of course, non-contiguous (Command-key) selection of files/folders continues to work on any Mac system - but not really what you were asking about.