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Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. That they are not built-in really doesn't matter though. All these editors revolve around plugins, and it's common practice to save your preferences on github or the like so that it's easy to use the same settings and plugins on every machine.
> Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. I think you have to wait a few minutes, then it gets activated. > No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. That's too complicated for me. Last time I've tried to set up vim and emacs to my liking it was a mess: A lot of copying and pasting around random code, changing configuration files I didn't unde…
Granted, Atom, Sublime, VSCode etc. are easier to start with because they expose customization through JSON files instead of a custom programming language. But if someone where to tell you that they didn't understand how multiple cursors worked in VSCode, you would tell them to learn their tools and send them a link to the relevant page of the documentation (if that).
If you know your editor, adding functionality like multiple cursors is easy. The greatest strengths of extensible lightweight editors like VSCode and Emacs, is that such functionality is only a package away.