Re: Multiple cursors in vim, is it possible?

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Asis Hallab <asis.hallab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Vimers,
>
> I just watched a screencast about Submile Text 2, a much buzzed about new
> text editor.
> 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.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bPRhFHEz0
>
> In some cases I am convinced this feature is easier and quicker to use than
> macros.
> In a way the visual block mode does what multiple cursors do. Only they do
> more..
>
> I have to say, there is already an emacs plugin for multiple cursor support:
> https://github.com/emacsmirror/multiple-cursors
>
> So now my question:
> Could this be implemented as a plugin for vim?
> Could that be written in VimL or needed to be compiled into Vim itself?
>
> Looking forward to your ideas.
>
> Cheers!
> Asis

Hi Asis

Someone thought about multi-editing with Vim already. See:

http://blog.felixriedel.com/2012/06/multi-editing-in-vim/

-- Dominique

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