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If there is one thing I love about vim, sublime, light table, etc.. is it gives emacs fans new things to implement in elisp!

But seriously, I love the work that has been going into all these different text editors. It seems to be net benefit for everyone. Multiple cursors are like a visual kbd-macro-edit..

Obligatory emacs equivalent source:

- https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el - http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html

By the ever awesome Magnar Sveen

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I should probably put a reference to him on the project page, as watching his video recently was a big push towards making me implement this in Vim. His expand-region plugin also inspired me to create vim-expand-region. I wonder what I'll 'copy' next. :)

That was a great video - I just wish he'd used an app to show all keys he's pressing (since there's something to pickup from advanced emacs' users).

Used Emacs from a few years and I don't remember any more how to do all those things!

Thanks for mentioning (& developing) this, vim-expand-region is awesome.

Thanks! expand-region and multiple-cursors run in the same vein in that it takes some functionality Vim already offers, and makes them a little easier to use to the average user. I'm a pretty new and definitely average Vim user myself, and remembering just 2 keystrokes to select some region of text is definitely much easier on my brain muscle than having to remember the dozen of text objects offered by Vim as well as other plugins. Maybe one day all of them will be burnt into my muscle memory, but that simply isn't the case today and expand-region helps me remain productive while learning. :)

I love Magnar's multiple cursors. I end up using it at least a few times a day, and it always saves me a ton of time.

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