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Re:Neovim 0.12.0 by alwillis on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:19PM (#47568012)
Looking forward to multiple cursors… but Vim/Neovim can already do some of the common use-cases for multiple cursors, like prepending (or appending) text to a bunch of lines using visual block mode [1].

Here’s a video example [2]:

[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_10/#_visual-block-mode

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/jai57c/the_usefulness_...

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Re:Neovim 0.12.0 by thayne on Monday March 30, 2026 @10:59PM (#47582257)
Yes, and I use those. But it would be nice if it could be generalized to cases where the places that need to be edited didn't line up nicely in a block.
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Re:Neovim 0.12.0 by alwillis on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:17PM (#47592119)
Agreed.
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