Sunday, August 5, 2012

Re: Multiple cursors in vim, is it possible?

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




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