> I find vims block highlighting (ctrl+v) very useful, never noticed it being part of an IDE. As far as I'm aware multicursors are a superset of block editing

> I find vims block highlighting (ctrl+v) very useful, never noticed it being part of an IDE. As far as I'm aware multicursors are a superset of block editing (i.e. multicursors can emulate block editing but the reverse is not true), so many (most?) modern IDEs can at least emulate block editing.