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Sublime Text introduced multiple cursors to the world. A single incredibly versatile and elegant feature. That feature has empowered my ability to use other pie
by laserbeam 4y ago
Sublime Text introduced multiple cursors to the world. A single incredibly versatile and elegant feature. That feature has empowered my ability to use other pieces of software faster, and programming languages I was unfamiliar with... Better.
I've used it to:
- batch edit columns copied from excel files.
- wget/rename/run cli commands on dozens of inputs without having to worry about how for loops are written in bash/bat/powershell by just typing commands on a hundred lines and concatenating them with &&
- extract data from various text files without writing parsers or even thinking about regexes
This is one keyboard shortcut, with one of the smoothest learning curves ever. Pure elegance.
- anthk 4y agoWith a tiny set of AWK yo could do that much faster.