VS Code can do that?

Re:VS Code can do that? by jobigoud on Saturday April 21, 2018 @12:08PM (#16891945)

I believe Sublime introduced the feature. I looked it up and it was already present in the first release on January 18, 2008.

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Re:VS Code can do that? by dexterdog on Saturday April 21, 2018 @12:38PM (#16892086)

Column editing? That was in a shareware text editor that I wrote for Windows in the mid 90s and I didn't invent it.

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Re:VS Code can do that? by ehsankia on Saturday April 21, 2018 @03:05PM (#16892808)

Editors like n++ have column editing, but Sublime takes it to a different level. It's most generalized, it's multi-cursor.

You can for example put your cursor on a word, spam ctrl+d (of press alt+f3) to select all instances of that word, and start editing them all at ones, no matter where they are. They don't have to be perfectly in a column. You can also copy X items from anywhere, and if you have X cursors again somewhere else and paste, they'll each go in their respective slot.

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Re:VS Code can do that? by setr on Saturday April 21, 2018 @01:04PM (#16892206)

multi-selection; multiple cursors, arbitrary (non-contiguous) columns, arbitrary rows.

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