Multiple Cursors in Sublime Text 2 Windows

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I have installed Sublime Text 2 in windows and I am trying to use the multiple cursors feature   Firstly I highlight the selection I am looking for  three lines     Then I can press CTRL   D to select each re-occurrence  or ALT   F3 to select all  There are four repeats in my situation   I now want to move the cursors in the middle of the three lines and add some information  to be added to all occurrences    As soon as I click in the selection  the multiple selection is gone  Is there something I am doing wrong  I am sure it is wrong but as the documentation is so weak I cannot find out how

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It s usually just easier to skip the mouse altogether--or it would be if Sublime didn t mess up multiselect when word wrapping   Here s the official documentation on using the keyboard and mouse for multiple selection   Since it s a bit spread out  I ll summarize it   Where shortcuts are different in Sublime Text 3  I ve made a note   For v3  I always test using the latest dev build  if you re using the beta build  your experience may be different   If you lose your selection when switching tabs or windows  particularly on Linux   try using Ctrl   U to restore it   Mouse  Windows Linux  Building blocks    Positive negative    Add to selection  Ctrl Subtract from selection  Alt In early builds of v3  this didn t work for linear selection   Selection type    Linear selection  Left Click Block selection  Middle Click or Shift   Right Click  On Linux  middle click pastes instead by default     Combine as you see fit   For example    Add to selection  Ctrl   Left Click  and optionally drag  Subtract from selection  Alt   Left Click This didn t work in early builds of v3  Add block selection  Ctrl   Shift   Right Click  and drag  Subtract block selection  Alt   Shift   Right Click  and drag    Mac OS X  Building blocks    Positive negative    Add to selection    Subtract from selection      only works with block selection in v3  presumably bug   Selection type    Linear selection  Left Click Block selection  Middle Click or     Left Click    Combine as you see fit   For example    Add to selection      Left Click  and optionally drag  Subtract from selection       Left Click  and drag--this combination doesn t work in Sublime Text 3  but supposedly it works in 2  Add block selection       Left Click  and drag  Subtract block selection        Left Click  and drag    Keyboard  Windows   Return to single selection mode  Esc Extend selection upward downward at all carets  Ctrl   Alt   Up Down Extend selection leftward rightward at all carets  Shift   Left Right Move all carets up down left right  and clear selection  Up Down Left Right Undo the last selection motion  Ctrl   U Add next occurrence of selected text to selection  Ctrl   D Add all occurrences of the selected text to the selection  Alt   F3 Rotate between occurrences of selected text  single selection   Ctrl   F3  reverse  Ctrl   Shift   F3  Turn a single linear selection into a block selection  with a caret at the end of the selected text in each line  Ctrl   Shift   L   Linux   Return to single selection mode  Esc Extend selection upward downward at all carets  Alt   Up Down  Note that you may be able to hold Ctrl as well to get the same shortcuts as Windows  but Linux tends to use Ctrl   Alt combinations for global shortcuts  Extend selection leftward rightward at all carets  Shift   Left Right Move all carets up down left right  and clear selection  Up Down Left Right Undo the last selection motion  Ctrl   U Add next occurrence of selected text to selection  Ctrl   D Add all occurrences of the selected text to the selection  Alt   F3 Rotate between occurrences of selected text  single selection   Ctrl   F3  reverse  Ctrl   Shift   F3  Turn a single linear selection into a block selection  with a caret at the end of the selected text in each line  Ctrl   Shift   L   Mac OS X   Return to single selection mode     that s the Mac symbol for Escape  Extend selection upward downward at all carets            See note  Extend selection leftward rightward at all carets        Move all carets up down left right and clear selection             Undo the last selection motion   U Add next occurrence of selected text to selection   D Add all occurrences of the selected text to the selection    G Rotate between occurrences of selected text  single selection     G  reverse     G  Turn a single linear selection into a block selection  with a caret at the end of the selected text in each line    L   Notes for Mac users  On Yosemite and El Capitan      and     are system keyboard shortcuts by default   If you want them to work in Sublime Text  you will need to change them    Open System Preferences  Select the Shortcuts tab  Select Mission Control in the left listbox  Change the keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control and Application windows  or disable them    I use     and       They defaults are    and     adding   to those shortcuts triggers the same actions  but slows the animations    In case you re not familiar with Mac s keyboard symbols      is the escape key   is the control key   is the option key   is the shift key   is the command key   et al are the arrow keys  as depicted

User · Answer

Try using Ctrl-click on the multiple places you want the cursors  Ctrl-D is for multiple incremental finds

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Mac Users  let me save you the time    Cmd a  select the lines you want a cursor Cmd Shift l  to create the cursor

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I find using vintage mode works really well with sublime multiselect   My most used keys would be  w  for jumping a word      and     to move to first last character  of the line  Combinations like  2dw   delete the next two words after the cursor  make using multiselect really powerful    This sounds obvious but has really sped up my workflow  especially when editing HTML

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In Sublime Text  after you select multiple regions of text  a click is considered a way to exit the multi-select mode  Move the cursor with the keyboard keys  arrows  Ctrl arrows  etc   instead  and you ll be fine

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