Vim, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and the multiple cursors.
ABSTRACT Article on comparative handling of multiple cursors in Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and Vim. 1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about? 2. Who "invented" multiple cursors? 3. Multiple cursors in Sublime Text 3 and 4. 4. Multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code. 5. Comparison of Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code. 6. Vim and the built-in multiple editing functions. 7. Effective multi cursors also on Vim. 1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about? What are multiple cursors? An example is worth more than many words: imagine that you have a list consisting of a hundred lines and you have to insert a certain characters, for example a pair of asterisks, at the beginning and at the end of each term in the list. Try performing the operation manually a hundred times and then measuring the time spent! Now imagine, instead, entering those characters once for all the rows but using a hundred or so cursors si...