How to sow seeds like in the demo video

[karmov]

In the demo the character grabs a bunch of seeds, selects a large area and then it seems to auto-sow the seeds in all the empty spots. That looks really helpful but I can't figure out how to do it. Any suggestions?

[insanechef]

Good thread idea. Some UI commands that might be worth noticing:
Hold Shift while mousewheeling to rotate buildings when placing them.
Hold Control while placing buildings in order to not limit their placements to even tiles and right angles
Right-click a stock-pilable item on the ground to place a stockpile with it
When clicking to place a stockpile, hold shift to immediately transfer all matching items into it
Shift-rightclick a stockpile to grab an item from it without using the UI
Shift-mousewheel on the stockpile UI to transfer items between it and your inventory
Shift-rightclick dropped items to pick up all nearby dropped items of the same type
Shift-leftclick on the map to keep walking indefinitely in the same direction
Shift-rightclick seeds or a bucket of seeds to get a cursor to bulk-plant them
Shift-rightclick a crop to get a cursor to bulk-harvest crops of the clicked type
That's all I can think of right now, but I might have missed something.

Mod edit: A few random things that have been showing up here and there that may not be readily evident. -MagicManICT
Ctrl + <number> discards that card when in combat

from the new controls sticky

[karmov]

... Of course it is... Sigh... Sorry for asking a question who's answer is stickied.