GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 748655
Multi-caret/Multi-line editing
Last modified: 2021-07-05 11:00:33 UTC
Multi-caret editing allows the user to activate two or more non-contiguous insertion points (identified by the blinking caret) within the document. Each caret acts and operates independently of any other caret, and any edit operations the user executes are performed in all caret locations simultaneously. So you can select multiple carets for example by Ctrl+Alt+ArrowKey. Example you can select 10 lines, then type # and then all lines get #, and all of them are commented out.
That's something we want to include in GtkSourceView. There is already a gedit plugin doing that.
elementary would also love this, as we use GtkSourceView in elementary Code. Downstream bug report at https://github.com/elementary/code/issues/314
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