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Simultaneous editing

In human–computer interaction, simultaneous editing is an end-user development technique allowing a single user to make multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection at once through direct manipulation.

Multiple selections and cursors are typically created by using a keyboard shortcut to select repeated instances of the same text or text fragments surrounded by the same delimiters, by using a search feature to select all instances of a search term, by selecting the same column in multiple lines, or by selecting text or cursor positions with a mouse. The Lapis experimental web browser and text editor is also able to infer selections based on concept learning from positive and negative examples given by the user during a process known as selection guessing.

Tools for data wrangling (mass reformatting) also sometimes include commands for simultaneous editing of all data in a column or category.

Editors supporting simultaneous editing

Simultaneous editing in Lapis
Multiple selections in Sublime Text
Multiple cursors in Cloud9
Multi-cursor package in Atom
Multiple selections in Visual Studio Code
Multiple selections in Firefox developer tools
Multiple-cursors in Emacs
Multi Edit plug-in for gedit
Multi-Editing Settings in Notepad++{{cite web |access-date=2016-06-17 |archive-date=2016-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809222901/https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/multi-editing.html |url-status=dead
Multiple carets in PyCharm
Column Edit Mode in Vi and Vi derivatives such as Vim

References

Copy-and-Paste between Overlapping Windows by Olivier Chapuis, Nicolas Roussel. In Proceedings of CHI'07. "Other systems have been proposed to support fast copy-paste of multiple selections or text entities like phone numbers"
Citeseer
LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure introductory article.
Lightweight Structured Text Processing, an extended description
Robert C. Miller, Brad A. Myers: Multiple selections in smart text editing. 103–110, IUI 2002, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January 13–16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. ACM, 2002,

References

"LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure".
"LAPIS - Editing Text with Lightweight Structure".
"Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose".
"Multiple Cursors - Cloud9".
"Multi-cursor package".
"Multiple selections (multi-cursor)".
Heather Arthur and Robert Nyman. (May 7, 2014). "Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31". Mozilla.
"Multiple cursors for emacs.".
"Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors".
(15 November 2009). "New gedit plugin: multi edit".
"Multiple carets".

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