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Duplicate cursor -- multicursor without the mouse
Add a keyboard shortcut that would:
- Add another cursor in the same place as the current one
- Focus on it
The user could then move the new cursor around, then press another shortcut to jump out of multicursor focus mode.
That method allows precise cursor placement, but it involves so many steps that would be faster to use the mouse for that purpose. It would be more usable if it worked with just a modifier-shift-up/down. It allows the selection to be expanded up and down and it's really fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwaEGbT7Zo
+1 for a keyboard shortcut!
90% of the time I want to create multiple cursors on all n lines above or below the current cursor, usually for between 3 and 50 lines, so I can insert/delete text on all the lines at once.
It would be fantastic if I didn't have to click all 3 or 50 times, and could just use a Modifier+Up/Down instead. Since most modifiers are already taken, it would probably have to be something like Cmd+Opt+Shift+Up/Down, or else Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down.
Also, would be fantastic if this (and the click-to-add-cursor) would also add whitespace to the end of a line if the new cursor is beyond the end of a line.
@mjbaldwin You don't have to click 50 times, just hold alt and drag.
Alternatively, select from the start point to the end point and press alt quickly.
@fileability the limitations of the way the last one is works are the impossibility to expand the selection in both directions and the lack of explicit feedback on what the result of the selection will be.
The Select+Alt is great, but a Modifier+Up/Down would still be really useful.
Also, Atom has a super handy multicursor shortcut that selects the word where the cursor is (Cmd+D), and then selects another matching string for every time the shortcut is pressed and give you a cursor at each selection.
@atg Is there any way to just make esc the key command for exiting multi-cursor?