> Often I have wanted to simply select a bunch of files and edit them at once DirEd (Directory Editor IIRC) is one thing I've seen sort of do this. https://www

> Often I have wanted to simply select a bunch of files and edit them at once DirEd (Directory Editor IIRC) is one thing I've seen sort of do this. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di... I'm really surprised that idea hasn't been doubled down on in IDEs. I still use a handy little Mac App called Rename It to edit a bunch of file names at once, because DirEd I find a bit clunky. I've taken some stabs at building this kind of editor, but it's definitely hard to nail. At least for the Tree Notation web ides we can get it added eventually, perhaps it will be easier now that CodeMirror 6 is out (which I use for the fancy syntax highlighting and all that in the current Language builder IDE). But I 100% agree with your ideas here. If something like this (either as one scrollable buffer, or perhaps a bunch of buffers in a 2-D spreadsheet like interface), ends up being the primary IDE view in 10 years, I would not be surprised.