You don’t need multiple cursors in Vim

MasteringVim tweeted an article by Christoph Hermann:

There is a plugin for vim (vim-multiple-cursors) which allows you to mimic that behaviour, but it has some problems.

After using it for quite some time I came to the conclusion that there is no situation which can’t be addressed (IMHO even better) with “native” vim features.

Editing text in a non-Vim environment is a pain, so multiple cursors might seem a good idea (in fact, it was one of the major selling features of Sublime Text). But with all the modal editing features in Vim, you don’t need to go into the trouble of manipulating multiple cursors. Check out the article for some cool tips, including the powerful visual-at function.

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