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multi-select is by no means an ST invention.

• jskinner 9y ago
  As far as I'm aware it is. If you know of an implementation done before 2008 I'd love to know about it.
  • panic 9y ago
    jEdit appears to have had multiple cursors since at least 2005, though I don't know how useful they were.
    • jdc0589 9y ago
      jEdit was a seriously under rated text editor, I used the CRAP out of it in college.
      • badsectoracula 9y ago
        Was? It is still being developed, the last version was released six months ago: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/5.4.0/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/5.4.0/
        • jdc0589 9y ago
          nice, I had no idea.
    • billbrown 9y ago
      They worked great and I stayed with jEdit long past when it was reasonable to do so because of that and so many other amazing features.
      • icebraining 9y ago
        Why did it stop being reasonable?
    • billbrown 9y ago
      Out of curiosity: I looked up the jEdit developer and it turns out that he's currently working on the Swift compiler at Apple! https://twitter.com/slava_pestov https://twitter.com/slava_pestov
  • mmjaa 9y ago
    PC-Write had it in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write
  • deleted 9y ago
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  • icebraining 9y ago
    In LAPIS (1999), you could not only select multiple things, as it could guess what you meant to select based on the structure of the text: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/lapis/index.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/lapis/index.html
  • throwaway6845 9y ago
    OS X has always had it, albeit a fairly limited implementation. Try it in TextEdit.