fileability/chocolat-public — Issue #749: Multicursor suggestion
Author: mads379
Created: 2012-02-01 23:48:06+00:00
State: open

Hi,

Being able to maneuver multiple cursors is really awesome. The following is a list of things that I think would be really, really great and beat the multi-cursor support by other text editors I've tried (Textmate2, Sublime text 2):

- If you've made a selection you should be able to hit 'alt' and it would create a cursor in each line of the selection. The cursor should be placed at the same column number as the start of the selection. This is great for simple things like prepending all lines with '-'. (This is currently implemented in TextMate 2).
- Making the alt+cmd+double click accessible by keyboard would be awesome. Make a short-cut for next/previous cursor. Making it possible to select the next/previous cursor as well as the current one would also be fun.
- Make it possible to spawn a new cursor at the some position as the current one(s) leaving the old one(s) idle. This could work a quick bookmark functionality together with the previous suggestions but I could find a lot of other fun uses like pre/post-fixing a word at the same time: spawn cursor, ctrl + w, ctrl + f, extend cursor selection to previous cursor, start typing.
- A keyboard shortcut to remove all cursors but the current one