MSmsravi·Oct 24, 2024
You don't need more than one cursor in vim:
https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-...
But if you really want it:
https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
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vim-visual-multi
Multiple cursors plugin for vim/neovim
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8 sourcesvim-visual-multi works well.
https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
I do wish it was built in (like in vis) though
https://github.com/martanne/vis
In Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim fasterI use the visual-multi plugin [0] all day in vim/neovim.
I don't like using tons of plugins but multi cursor with with selective invocation like the ctrl-d of sublime etc was the main thing I missed when moving to vim. (I use visual block mode too but it's not the same thing).
https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi.git
In Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminalYep, sure, and if that kind of code change was a frequent experience then I can imagine myself thinking multi-cursors would pay their way. As it is, I’d be perfectly happy using hjkl (because the change sites are so close) and cw and . and not for a second thinking my editing experience was suffering.
However, your comments will cause me to take a good look now at VSCodium and https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
In Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'If you insist, you may have a look at https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
It implements multi cursors in vim and combines it with vim movements etc.
In Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)I think you're referring to multiple cursors? Visual-Multi [0] is an amazing Vim plugin for this with advanced features like searching by regex, alignment by regex, transposition, duplication, auto-numbering, and more.
You can ignore the advanced features at first, it's very intuitive: just `C-n` to find the next occurrence of the word or `\\a` to find all, and then whatever editing operation you want like `cfoobar<esc>`. Or to just get another cursor on the line below, `C-<down>`.
[0]: https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
In GNU nano is my editor of choice> multi cursors only work for tabular data
There are several plugins which allow for more complex use of multiple cursors.
* https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi
* https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
In Neovim 0.5 is overpowering