Re: Multiple cursors in vim, is it possible?

On 05/08/12 20:12, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/05/12 12:25, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> On 05/08/12 15:12, Asis Hallab wrote:
>>> It has a very neat feature called *multiple cursors*, where the
>>> user just selects different positions in the current buffer and
>>> every editing done is applied to those multiple cursor
>>> positions.
>>
>> The nearest thing to multiple cursors that I can imagine which is
>> easy to do, would be to have your "several locations"
>
> The first thing that occurred to me was the use of the :g command
> which performs one or more Ex commands on every line that matches a
> pattern. In a way, "ed" allowed for editing at multiple "cursor"
> locations decades ago. :-)
>
> -tim
>

Ah, right, but not interactively, and in only one file at a time.


Best regards,
Tony.
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