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I would like to be able to equally distribute the contents of my cursor into several different containers quickly.

E.G. I have some coal I'd like to put into 5 different boilers. Currently I have to split up the stacks before I place them. I'd like to be able to do this without having to split them up by using a command like: ( Shift-Mouse Down, Drag, Mouse Up )

Why don't you built a belt, inserters and a chest? Put 5 inserters before the boilers, put a belt before it, put the chest at the beginning of the belt plus an inserter, then put the coal into it and let the game do the rest...

Splitting stacks also becomes awkward because your inventory auto-stacks everything to maxstack. splitting between 4 is still doable though because you split in half, place in first boiler, split that stack, place that in second, then split what's left in your inventory between 3 and 4.

but... as it stands now, Yeah, either you should use a belt and inserters, or just fill the first boiler first, because the first boiler operates at full power before the others even turn on.