Re:Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText
by m_mueller on Saturday April 06, 2013 @09:50PM
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No offence, but that's the typical kind of comment coming from someone who's never actually tried multicursor functionality. The thing about multicursor is that it's seamlessly integrated not only with editor commands, but also with commands that create multicursors.
Examples:
- Cmd-Shift-L creates a cursor at the end of every line of the selected area.
- Find all, integrated with Regex, creates multicursors on every match.
- Once you get multicursors, you can still add some manually by holding down Cmd and double clicking at a cursor position.
After you get multicursors, you can then move them around using standard editor commands - that's the real power of this construct, since I'm able to match something much simpler than I actually want to edit (for example end/beginning of line), move to the meat, edit.
Examples:
- Cmd-Shift-L creates a cursor at the end of every line of the selected area.
- Find all, integrated with Regex, creates multicursors on every match.
- Once you get multicursors, you can still add some manually by holding down Cmd and double clicking at a cursor position.
After you get multicursors, you can then move them around using standard editor commands - that's the real power of this construct, since I'm able to match something much simpler than I actually want to edit (for example end/beginning of line), move to the meat, edit.