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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.