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PC-Write had it, long, long ago and .. like ST .. this feature was the only reason I used that app.
by mmjaa 9y ago
PC-Write had it, long, long ago and .. like ST .. this feature was the only reason I used that app.
- shubhamjain 9y agoI can't comment on how well it was implemented in PC-Write but it won't be far-fetched to say that Sublime made multiple-selections mainstream. I had seen some references to vim plugins that offered that feature but it had limited abilities. The three ways of doing multiple selections—selecting multiple instances of a word, placing multiple cursors downwards in succeeding lines, and using point and click—made Sublime's implementation vastly more powerful.
- mmjaa 9y agoBack in the day (early-mid 80's), PC-Write was kind of like the SublimeText of the era. Multiple-select was indeed one of the key reasons to use it, as a programmers editor, even though it was intended for more general-purpose word processing tasks. Anecdotal experience: my first unboxing of ST2 led to the proclamation: "finally, someone has done multi-select cursors again, almost as good as PC-Write back in the day!"
- armandososa 9y agohey! I used PC-write back in the nineties. I have nothing to add, just happy to find another user of that softeare.