On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 22:29:10 UTC, Marco Nembrini
wrote:
On 16.01.2013 20:07, Mehrdad wrote:
When you have a ton of similar lines of code which need to be
edited in
parallel, lining them up lets you edit all of them in one
keystroke.
Saves me quite a lot of annoying editing in the long run,
actually.
With Sublime Text you don't even have to align columns to do
multiple simultaneous edits, just ctrl + click to create
multiple cursors and then type/edit away. It has a lot of nice
features :)
Uh, you sort of missed the point...
The point was that you align similar-looking lines when /writing/
the code, so that it's in the right form when you need to modify
it later, and all you need to do is Alt-Click-Drag to create 20
cursors, and type away.
Or to put it another way: the whole point is to turn an O(n)
operation into an O(1) operation. If you have to make O(n)
cursor-additions then you've defeated the whole purpose.
That said, what you mentioned is not just a Sublime feature...
I use SciTE which does exactly the same thing. =P
