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Re:Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE by hartator on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:39AM (#16941062)
Exactly this. Vim key shortcuts are truly awesome, but most of the times, mouse selection is just so superior, specially now with multicursors, column selections, and live feedback.
Re:Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE by eptcyka on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:41AM (#16941606)
Whilst I'm unsure about multicursors, everything you've stated is possible with different visual selection modes. I think the biggest problem vim has is discoverability rather than direct ease of use or lack of functionality.
Re:Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE by JoshMnem on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:07PM (#16941844)
You can do multiple cursors with Vim:

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

I don't use them because if I want to change text in multiple places, you can highlight the lines where you want to change it, for example the current line to line 57 would be: V57G.

Then to change `foo` to `bar` type: :s/foo/bar/g and the replacements will take place within the selected range. If you only want to change some of them add a c on the end of the command.

Column selections: `ctrl-v`.

I'm not sure what kind of live feedback you mean, but Vim gives multiple forms of feedback, depending on what plugins are installed.

Re:Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE by z3t4 on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:08AM (#16941313)
Do you have a demo on multicursor mouse selection !?
Re:Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE by tomsmeding on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:27AM (#16941479)
That is most probably with a plugin; there are a number of plugins for vim that provide varying amounts of multicursor support. I haven't found one yet, though, that provides the amount of integration and speed that sublime text's multicursor feature gives; in my experience, the relevant vim plugins work mostly and are slow.