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I agree, in general, with his point. But multiline editing was a real game changer for me. Things I once did manually that can be achieved with significantly le

• meheleventyone 6y ago
  How do you use it? I’m terrible at using these sorts of features. I occasionally try again but often find it awkward and not much of a win over my normal method that doesn’t involve multiple cursors. I figure either I’m doing something wrong or just not coming up against the right cases.
  • jnsie 6y ago
    Definitely courses for horses, and all that. Whichever way works quickly and accurately for you is the best way... I've used multiple cursors for many purposes, initially as a dev it worked very well as a poor man's ETL - take a spreadsheet and perform a bunch of transformations (reverse first name and last name, trim these fields, add leading zeros to this field, concatenate these fields, delete this field, use some sublime plugins to generate incrementing IDs, etc.), wrap it in a SQL insert statement, etc. etc. I used it a ridiculous amount and at times it made me look far more efficient than I really am. I'm on the business side now but even today I found myself cleaning some data with multiple cursors, sorting alphabetically, and then using a 'count duplicates' command I found on GitHub to remove duplicates and prefix each line with the number of times it was duplicated. I could have done it in excel, but it took me literally 20 seconds to do it in Sublime.