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Re:Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor by nine_k on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:07AM (#13174191)
Multi-cursor seems very anti-DRY.

If you have parts of code that share so much structure that multi-cursors are useful, you likely want to factor them out.

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Re:Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor by flukus on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:13AM (#13174212)
The most common use case that can't be factored out would be sql.
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