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I believe Sublime introduced the feature. I looked it up and it was already present in the first release on January 18, 2008.

• dexterdog 9y ago
  Column editing? That was in a shareware text editor that I wrote for Windows in the mid 90s and I didn't invent it.
  • setr 9y ago
    multi-selection; multiple cursors, arbitrary (non-contiguous) columns, arbitrary rows.
  • ehsankia 9y ago
    Editors like n++ have column editing, but Sublime takes it to a different level. It's most generalized, it's multi-cursor. You can for example put your cursor on a word, spam ctrl+d (of press alt+f3) to select all instances of that word, and start editing them all at ones, no matter where they are. They don't have to be perfectly in a column. You can also copy X items from anywhere, and if you have X cursors again somewhere else and paste, they'll each go in their respective slot.