On 01/17/2013 04:10 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
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 cannot be true. Drag alone is O(n). (eg. emacs does not require drag!)
That said, what you mentioned is not just a Sublime feature...
I use SciTE which does exactly the same thing. =P
