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You don't need more than one cursor in vim: https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-cursor-in-vim-2c44117d51db https://medium.com/@schtoeff

by msravi 2y ago

You don't need more than one cursor in vim: https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-cursor-in-vim-2c44117d51db https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-... But if you really want it: https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi

archargelod 2y ago
There's also vis[0] It is an editor that combines best parts from vim and plan9 sam[1] (multiple cursors, structural regular expressions). 0 - https://github.com/martanne/vis https://github.com/martanne/vis 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)
disintegrator 2y ago
I really love working in neovim but this is a frustrating position that much of the community has taken. Editing multiple sites _simultaneously_ is nowhere as intuitive as with VS Code and IntelliJ/Sublime before it. - Repeat - `.` - is ok for some bulk manipulations but in my opinion it's not as nice because it's after the fact. I like that in VSC I select all the occurrences I want to edit first and then if the selections match my expectations I go ahead. - Visual mode only lets you work vertically in a contiguous block of text. That's not the same or as convenient as multi-cursor in VSCode where I can select the word "const" for example and ⌘-D to select more occurrences of it anywhere in the buffer, not just above/below, and bulk edit them to "let". - Macros are often what I lean and they can do far more than multi-cursor editing could but they are far more tedious to string along and repeat when all I want is to change some text in multiple locations. - Text replacement (sed) is also fine but not as convenient in my opinion. Either way, neovim will be getting native multi-cursor support and I'm very excited about that because I'm not particularly fond of VS Code (in terms of perf/resource usage) but I recognise (neo)vim doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas.
stronglikedan 2y ago
I may not need it, but every operation they demonstrated is significantly slower than using multiple cursors, so I definitely want it.

by msravi 2y ago

archargelod 2y ago

There's also vis[0] It is an editor that combines best parts from vim and plan9 sam[1] (multiple cursors, structural regular expressions). 0 - https://github.com/martanne/vis https://github.com/martanne/vis 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)

disintegrator 2y ago

I really love working in neovim but this is a frustrating position that much of the community has taken. Editing multiple sites _simultaneously_ is nowhere as intuitive as with VS Code and IntelliJ/Sublime before it. - Repeat - `.` - is ok for some bulk manipulations but in my opinion it's not as nice because it's after the fact. I like that in VSC I select all the occurrences I want to edit first and then if the selections match my expectations I go ahead. - Visual mode only lets you work vertically in a contiguous block of text. That's not the same or as convenient as multi-cursor in VSCode where I can select the word "const" for example and ⌘-D to select more occurrences of it anywhere in the buffer, not just above/below, and bulk edit them to "let". - Macros are often what I lean and they can do far more than multi-cursor editing could but they are far more tedious to string along and repeat when all I want is to change some text in multiple locations. - Text replacement (sed) is also fine but not as convenient in my opinion. Either way, neovim will be getting native multi-cursor support and I'm very excited about that because I'm not particularly fond of VS Code (in terms of perf/resource usage) but I recognise (neo)vim doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas.

stronglikedan 2y ago

I may not need it, but every operation they demonstrated is significantly slower than using multiple cursors, so I definitely want it.