Vim multi-cursor support

[kierangilliam]

I saw in this demo that Zed supports multiple cursors in insert mode. Is there compatibility for multiple cursors in command mode? In VSCode, I often use multi-cursors along with f, ciw, etc.

Example:

Kapture.2024-01-26.at.19.10.27.webm

I can't get this to work in Zed out of the box. Is there an option to enable this?

[mrnugget]

Is there compatibility for multiple cursors in command mode?

You mean normal mode, right? Because command mode is the one triggered with :.

And yes, you can use the multi-cursors in normal mode:

screenshot-2024-01-27-10.26.18.mp4

There are still a lot of things to solve with regards to how visual mode and multi-cursor should interact, but yes, it works :)

[kierangilliam]

Correct! I do mean normal mode. Thanks for clarifying that. CMD D is great.

Is there a way to create multiple cursors for lines that do not share an identifier? For example:

multi.cursor.mov

[SomeoneToIgnore]

There's an "editor: split selection into lines" action that should help.

[kenandotfyi]

Not exactly what you show here, but you could also use the visual block mode with Ctrl + V and then go into multi-cursor mode.

[ohroy]

why

Select line | Editor | ⌘ + L

not work with multi cursor?

[marcospb19]

You should create a dedicated issue if you think something is broken and you want that fixed :)