The Xcode Source Editor supports multi-cursor editing allowing you to quickly edit multiple ranges of code at once. You can place additional cursors with the mouse via ⌃+⇧+Click or with column select (⌥+Click+Drag), or with the keyboard using ⌃+⇧+Up to column select up or ⌃+⇧+Down to column select down.
Questions tagged [multicursorediting]
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Multi-cursor editing in Xcode 10
What is 'Multi-cursor editing' in Xcode 10 editor. (more information about the same is mentioned in release notes but unable to understand.)
How exactly does it work?

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Is it possible to split selection into multi cursor in Intellij IDEA?
In sublime you can select a part of text or even whole text by Ctrl+A and tap Ctrl+Shift+L will split your selection into multi cursor, it is especially useful when you deal with a big selection, and it's a bit horribly to select it by Mouse3…

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Jupyter Multi-line Cursor with Mac
Does anyone know if this is possible to do on a mac?
http://swanintelligence.com/multi-cursor-in-jupyter.html
It looks like they are highlighting the entire text block and then getting multi-line cursors. I try doing this with option + mouse…

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Visual Studio Code - "Add Selection to find next match" losing selection when vim keymap enabled
I have a new installation of Visual Studio Code (default configuration, with vim keymap). I want to use the command "add selection to find next match". I think this is equivalent to how multicursors work in sublime text and vim (with an extension),…

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Select multiple lines with cursors at each line start in Dr Racket
I want to select multiple lines and put a cursor at the beginning of each line in the code editor Dr Racket. I know that this is possible in VS Code and many others but I don't find a keyboard shortcut to do it in Dr Racket. Is it possible? How?
I…

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to select word occurrences in just one line in visual studio code
I know the topic of multi cursors-editing in visual studio code is duplicate but what I want is the way (by keyboard) to select word occurrences in just one line in visual studio code, because the other option: ctrl + F2 it selects all the…

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How to simultaneously substitute all the identical words in online code editor of interviewbit?
Can you suggest some keyboard shortcut to substitute several occurrences of a word with some other word in a code editor!
Eg: In the picture below, I want to convert all the occurrences of 'int' to 'long int'.

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Deleting in Muticursor results in unexpected behavior?
Deleting in Multicursor snippets seem to not work. The cursor collapses in the first instance, and doesn't delete in the second instance. See video.
https://media.giphy.com/media/1jZuNl4WPuNory4awF/giphy.gif
This is the LaTeX snippet, I've tried…

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VSCode multicursor Lubuntu
Does anyone know to make multicursor work in vscode in Lubuntu 18.04? I already search everywhere and I didn't find anything. Can anyone help me please?

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