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> except for having to edit at a lot of randomly-chosen cursor points far apart from each other (but how often is that your use case?) I use Sublime, and prett
by derefr 3y ago
> except for having to edit at a lot of randomly-chosen cursor points far apart from each other (but how often is that your use case?)
I use Sublime, and pretty often I do a "Find All" for some term; then Multiselect (Cmd+L); then select from cursor (Shift+RightArrow); and then type something. Which is essentially "editing at a lot of randomly [or at least arbitrarily]-chosen cursor points."
That, and IIRC Sublime actually does its "Find and Replace All" operation, as essentially this same multicursor-select-and-type operation internally. (If you have a large-enough buffer open, you can see it gradually doing it!)
- shadowgovt 3y agoI've never been able to make that work, but I respect that you have. Generally, that kind of select almost always grabs a bunch of substrings that aren't appropriate and I end up mangling my file.
- User23 3y agoI’ve never noticed any perceptible latency using iedit[1] in Emacs, which does what it sounds to me like you are describing. It does suggest a possible multigap buffer structure though for efficiently doing simultaneous edits of distant locations in very large files. In that case though I’d probably be iediting a small wgrep[2] buffer anyhow so it might not really matter. [1] https://github.com/victorhge/iedit https://github.com/victorhge/iedit [2] https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep
- RexM 3y agoI do the same thing in sublime. Doing it still feels like I have super powers even after years of doing it. I’m sure there’s some magic key combo in emacs and/or vim to do it, too.