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I've been trying it, and do find it nice for small things, but a bit tedious for bigger things. Taking one of the examples in the animated GIF on the linked pag

I've been trying it, and do find it nice for small things, but a bit tedious for bigger things. Taking one of the examples in the animated GIF on the linked page, if you want to split a line on commas, with multiple cursors you have to select every single comma to 'initialize' the cursors. If the line has 3 fields, this is easier than using the regex, but if it has 10, then I find it a lot easier to just regex-split rather than spawning 10 cursors. I think I find 3 or 4 cursors nice, but past that prefer batch-style commands to manually managing a big set of cursors.

losvedir 14y ago
> with multiple cursors you have to select every single comma to 'initialize' the cursors. I hear this. Hopefully, the author will be able to implement what Sublime has: a find all field (which accepts regular expressions), and results in multiple cursors on all the matches. I do this all the time in Sublime and it's so natural: Cmd+F, /regex/, opt+Enter, [replace, or commands or whatever] It's just as fast as your usual find and replace or quick macro, except that you have instant feedback, are able to undo, jump around by word, or (with vim-mode), use t or f to find a character, ci", etc. Selecting a match one case at a time is great, though, when you need to skip some matches. Say you have `old_var`, `old_var2`, and `old_var3`. Just start at the top of the function, and match, match, skip, match, skip, [type and replace]. Sure, you could do a regex on old_var[^\d], but depending on what you're matching and what you're skipping it sometimes is just not worth puzzling out the right regex.
dhruvmittal 14y ago
I've been playing with it a bit and I've been seeing the same thing. I do like that this gives me a little flexibility, so I'll probably continue to use multiple cursors for the smaller stuff and the more traditional vim methods for anything larger.
edanm 14y ago
losvedir is right, in ST, "Find" will automatically create separate cursors and takes regex's. I used to also have plugin for ST1, which allowed you to do common things like selecting a line, then splitting it by a separator. For example, you'd select a line, split it by ", ", and get a cursor on each paramater. It worked wonderfully for these kinds of things.

losvedir 14y ago

> with multiple cursors you have to select every single comma to 'initialize' the cursors. I hear this. Hopefully, the author will be able to implement what Sublime has: a find all field (which accepts regular expressions), and results in multiple cursors on all the matches. I do this all the time in Sublime and it's so natural: Cmd+F, /regex/, opt+Enter, [replace, or commands or whatever] It's just as fast as your usual find and replace or quick macro, except that you have instant feedback, are able to undo, jump around by word, or (with vim-mode), use t or f to find a character, ci", etc. Selecting a match one case at a time is great, though, when you need to skip some matches. Say you have `old_var`, `old_var2`, and `old_var3`. Just start at the top of the function, and match, match, skip, match, skip, [type and replace]. Sure, you could do a regex on old_var[^\d], but depending on what you're matching and what you're skipping it sometimes is just not worth puzzling out the right regex.

dhruvmittal 14y ago

I've been playing with it a bit and I've been seeing the same thing. I do like that this gives me a little flexibility, so I'll probably continue to use multiple cursors for the smaller stuff and the more traditional vim methods for anything larger.

edanm 14y ago

losvedir is right, in ST, "Find" will automatically create separate cursors and takes regex's. I used to also have plugin for ST1, which allowed you to do common things like selecting a line, then splitting it by a separator. For example, you'd select a line, split it by ", ", and get a cursor on each paramater. It worked wonderfully for these kinds of things.