Re: Multiple cursors in vim, is it possible?

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:12:20 AM UTC-7, Asis Hallab wrote:
> Dear Vimers,
>
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> 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
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> In some cases I am convinced this feature is easier and quicker to use than macros.
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> In a way the visual block mode does what multiple cursors do. Only they do more..
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> I have to say, there is already an emacs plugin for multiple cursor support:
> https://github.com/emacsmirror/multiple-cursors
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> 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?
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> Looking forward to your ideas.
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> Cheers!
> Asis

Just want to mention that I just created a Vim plugin that tries to emulate Sublime Text's multiple selection behavior: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors. Check it out and see if it fits your need.

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