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True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim

26 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 2 stories, 24 comments · first 2013-04-14 · latest 2021-05-26

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  1. …which allow for more complex use of multiple cursors. * https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi * https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by michaelmior · 2021-05-26 · in Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
  2. …that, but I never felt the urge to use multiple cursors in Vim. 0: https://youtu.be/YR7rRC-vwj4 1: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors 2: https://github.com/paradigm/vim-multicursor
    comment by RMPR · 2020-07-01 · in How Did Vim Become So Popular?
  3. …there's a multi-cursor plugin available for the same approach as you're currently using in VSCode: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors Vim Golf is an excellent resource for seeing how to efficiently edit things in Vim:…
    comment by Lio · 2020-07-01 · in How Did Vim Become So Popular?
  4. Yes, vim has a multiple cursor plugin that is useful for things like this: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors . It's not as good as sublime in my experience, and I haven't used kakoune, but it's very serviceable.
    comment by zipperhead · 2020-01-24 · in My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks
  5. Mmm.. I see there are also vim plugins for multiple cursors, like https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors ..
    comment by feiss · 2019-07-19 · in History and Effective Use of Vim
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    story by b4c0n · 2019-03-19 · 0 comments
  7. …not obvious, but "obviously" wrong. Also VIM has multiple cursors for some time albeit as a plugin: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors > Vim is inefficient for editing > Vim's efficiency gains more apply to editing text, not…
    comment by gwn7 · 2019-03-17 · in Vim Anti-Patterns (2012)
  8. …a simple `C-n`… to select the name, followed by `c` to change all at once just /felt/ nice. 1. https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by JNRowe · 2018-11-21 · in TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor
  9. You can do multiple cursors with Vim: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors I don't use them because if I want to change text in multiple places, you can highlight the lines where you want to change it, for example the current…
    comment by JoshMnem · 2018-04-27 · in Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE
  10. …I'm nowhere near done :) [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21806168/vim-use-ctrl-q-... [1] https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by bananicorn · 2017-10-23 · in Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
  11. there's Vim-multiple-cursors on Vim that works really similar to the ST multicursor https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by negativ0 · 2017-06-16 · in Atom 1.18 released
  12. …I thought I'd search first. Does anyone know more about it? Its origins? More functionality? * Vim https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors * Atom (I'm not sure if it's the same functionality) https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor…
    comment by hackuser · 2017-05-07 · in Why I like Vim so much [video]
  13. …try to plug the gaps, but it's such a huge effort to assemble them all. For example, just installed https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors today to attempt get the elegant multiple selection of modern text editors.
    comment by jcrben · 2017-05-07 · in Why I like Vim so much [video]
  14. …editing comes to mind, and that's still really handy when I'm making edits to HTML) […]. https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors I use this with NeoVim and it works perfectly.
    comment by cseelus · 2017-04-17 · in Switching to Sublime Text from Vim in 2017
  15. It can but it's not robust as sublime's multi-cursor editing. https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by shriek · 2017-02-01 · in Using Vim as a Python IDE
  16. there are at least one plugin for multiple cursors stuff - https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by hippich · 2015-10-10 · in A Good Vimrc
  17. There is a plugin for that: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors But I find that I can usually accomplish the same thing with macro or a targeted search and replace.
    comment by Yzupnick · 2015-08-03 · in Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing
  18. …try looking around for some third party modules. Here is one I found by doing a github search: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by _murphys_law_ · 2015-08-03 · in Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing
  19. …As for multiple cursors, both vim and emacs have had them for years.[1][2][3][4][5] [1] - https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umb59mMvCxA [3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzGBnsJ-eg…
    comment by pmoriarty · 2014-11-08 · in Big things to expect from Emacs 25
  20. > We will never have multiple cursors https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by muteh · 2014-06-22 · in Just Use Sublime Text
  21. you can get multiple cursors with this plugin (works better than I expected) https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by Afal · 2014-04-30 · in Neovim's Next Feature Poll
  22. …(relatively long) talk on the power of vim I'd point you Ben Orenstein's "expert-level vim"[3]. [1] https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors [2] https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el [3]…
    comment by intslack · 2013-12-18 · in Sublime Text 3 - Build 3059 released
  23. Have you seen https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors and block cursor mode in Vim (ctrl+v)?
    comment by lunixbochs · 2013-11-04 · in Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself
  24. I haven't tried it, but it looks like there's a decent plugin for this for vim: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
    comment by nilkn · 2013-06-29 · in Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
  25. I've been using this for a few weeks: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors Works great!
    comment by lenni · 2013-05-09 · in Plans for Vim 7.4
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    story by tma · 2013-04-14 · 37 comments