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Sublime Text was actually the text editor that innovated this functionality. If you look at the github for the vim plugin, they clearly say "True Sublime Text s
by chillee 9y ago
Sublime Text was actually the text editor that innovated this functionality. If you look at the github for the vim plugin, they clearly say "True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim".
Although I've stopped using sublime text since, sublime text really drove forward the gui text editor market.
- johncoltrane 9y agoNo. JEdit had that feature long before Sublime Text.
- chillee 9y agoYou seem to be right. I always though Sublime Text introduced it (lots of people seem to believe this: https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-cursor-in-vim-2c44117d51db https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-...), but sublime text introduced multiple cursors with its release date in 2008, while JEdit appears to have had multiple cursors at least since 2003?