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Re:Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text by madelfio on Sunday July 15, 2012 @10:20AM (#4246995)
Yes, Ctrl-v to enter visual-block mode, then move up or down to cover all lines where you want to make changes, then I{string}Esc to append a string at the cursor location on all lines.

See: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/visual.html#blockwise-...

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Re:Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text by mvgoogler on Sunday July 15, 2012 @03:46PM (#4247864)
Doesn't block mode only work for blocks within contiguous lines of code? (basically it will let you select a rectangular section of code)

ST2 allows multiple cursors in arbitrary locations - I'm not aware of another editor that supports that.

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Re:Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text by jagira on Sunday July 15, 2012 @04:22PM (#4247961)
There is a vim plugin that provides arbitrary multiple line edit.

https://github.com/alfredodeza/plexer.vim

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