Sublime Text 2 multiple line edit

Question

I want to edit multiple lines and every  word  within that line  For example   45 28 42 65 24 87 47 95 01 25 87 98   I want to select every whole number in all lines and put a  0x  before it so it would look like   0x45 0x28 0x42 0x65 0x24 0x87 0x47 0x95 0x01 0x25 0x87 0x98   I know the Ctrl shift L to get cursors on each line  but how can I get the cursors in front of every number to mass edit all at once

User · Answer

Use multiple cursors and column selection.

In your case you just need to place the cursors at the beginning of each column containing the "words".

Linux and Windows

Click & drag to select column(s): Shift + RightMouseBtn
Add other column(s) to selection by click & drag: Ctrl + Shift + RightMouseBtn
Subtract column(s) from the selection: Alt + Shift + RightMouseBtn
Add individual cursors: Ctrl + LeftMouseBtn
Remove individual cursors: Alt + LeftMouseBtn

Mac

Click & drag to select column(s): Option? + LeftMouseBtn
Add other column(s) to selection by click & drag: Option? + LeftMouseBtn
Subtract column(s) from the selection: Cmd? + Option? + shift + LeftMouseBtn
Add individual cursors: Cmd? + LeftMouseBtn
Remove individual cursors: Cmd? + Option? + shift + LeftMouseBtn

Then edit as needed. In your case, type 0, x.

You could also navigate as needed to the end or beginning of the words, select the words and surround with quotes or parenthesis, and so on.

References:

Column selection

User · Answer

Windows   I prefer Alt F3 to search a string and change all instances of search string at once   http   www sublimetext com docs selection

User · Answer

Worked for me on OS X   Sublime build 3083   OPTION  ALT    select lines

User · Answer

It s fine to manually select each number for a small set of numbers like in your example  but for larger collections you can do a regex search which will do the work for you   Ctrl   F will open the search bar   Regex searches are enabled by clicking the      button on the far left   Type in   d   to search for all occurrences of 1 or more digits  Clicking the  Find All  button will select each of these numbers separately   Then you can use Ctrl   Shift   L to convert the selection into multiple cursors  From here you can do as you like

User · Answer

Highlight the lines and use    Windows  Ctrl Shift L  Mac  Cmd   Shift L    You can then move the cursor to your heart s content and edit all lines at once   It s also called  Split into Lines  in the  Selection  menu

User · Answer

ctrl   shift   right-click it works better that way

User · Answer

On Windows  I prefer Ctrl   Alt   Down   It selects the lines one by one and automatically starts the multi-line editor mode  It is a bit faster this way  If you have a lot of lines to edit then selecting the text and Ctrl   Shift   L is a better choice

User · Answer

I was facing the same problem on Linux  what I did was to select all the content  ctrl-A  and then press ctrl shift L  It gives you a cursor on each line and then you can add similar content to each column   Also you can perform other operations like cut  copy and paste column wise   PS  - If you want to select a rectangular set of data from text  you can also press shift and hold Right Mouse button and then select data in a rectangular fashion  Then press CTRL SHIFT L to get the cursor on each line

User · Answer

I m not sure it s possible  out of the box   And  unfortunately  I don t know an appropriate plugin either  To solve the problem you suggested you could use regular expressions    Cmd   F  Find  Regexp         or  d   or whatever you prefer  Option   F  Find All  Edit it   Hotkeys may vary depending on you OS and personal preferences  mine are for OS X

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