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Alternate headline: Textmate clone beats Textmate to version 2. This was pretty much my text editor of choice when I had to use a Windows box.
... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.
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Watch the screencast. This editor also has multiple-cursor editing.
As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
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As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
I can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
Alternate headline: Textmate clone beats Textmate to version 2. This was pretty much my text editor of choice when I had to use a Windows box.
In other news, Chrome, a Firefox clone, has beaten Firefox to version 4, and also to version 5... ... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.
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As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
I can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
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As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
I can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
For now, I'll try explaining: the way I think of it is, it lets you do the exact same thing as macros, except live. Macros in vim/emacs/others are often touted as a great feature, and they are. In vim for example, formatting a huge column of, say, html text involves formatting one row using the proper keyboard commands, then repeating the action multiple times. But with multiple selection, you can operate on all the rows at once, easily seeing what it is you're doing and how it's affecting all the rows.
Maybe even more importantly, it makes it much easier to do activities you wouldn't dream of doing in a macro, since it's much easier and more light-weight. For example, say I have two very similar if statements, one which deals with case "x" and one with case "y". Say I wanted to add a small piece of code to both. I can, with one command, select both "if"s, then just write away that piece of code. Lets say each "if" has a different variable name, I can actually move the cursor up to the variable name, select the name, then paste it every time I need to use it. This is the kind of repetitive task that happens a lot in real-life code, but which you would never use a macro for since it takes to long to make work. With multiple cursors, it works easily.
Summary: multiple cursors make macro-like things 20 times more intuitive and much easier in practice, meaning you use them more, meaning you do less repetitive stuff.
Hope that helps explain it; for more details, you'll have to wait/check out Sublime yourself.
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As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
I can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
With a multicursor editor, you just drag the mouse over that area to put a cursor on all those lines, and then type the fixed version to apply to all at once.
Regexes would do just as well, but depending on how comfortable you are with them this is a bit more rapid.
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Watch the screencast. This editor also has multiple-cursor editing.
As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
Regardless, I really, really love Sublime too. I wish it was available on other platforms.
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As far as I see, it isn't "true" multiple-cursor editing like Sublime has. At least as far as I could tell from the video. The difference being, in true multi-cursor selections, you actually have several cursors which behave like cursors . So, for example, you can do "ctrl+right", and all the cursors move forward one word. Even if all the words are a different length, the cursors behave correctly. This seems like a s…
I can't imagine a situation where this functionality would be useful. Can you give an example?
Across a whole document I just don't trust it to do what I am expecting when I can't see all the changes on the screen at once. Search and replace remains a much more intuitive (to me) approach.