Simultaneous editing

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In human–computer interaction, simultaneous editing is an end-user development technique allowing a 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.[1]

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

See also

References

  1. "LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure". https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/papers/chi02/chi02.html. 
  2. "LAPIS - Editing Text with Lightweight Structure". http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/lapis/. Retrieved 24 May 2016. 
  3. "Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose". http://www.sublimetext.com/. Retrieved 24 May 2016. 
  4. "Multiple Cursors - Cloud9". https://docs.c9.io/docs/multiple-cursors. Retrieved 24 May 2016. 
  5. "Multi-cursor package". https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor. Retrieved 24 May 2016. 
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  7. Heather Arthur and Robert Nyman (May 7, 2014). "Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31". Mozilla. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/editable-box-model-multiple-selection-sublime-text-keys-much-more-firefox-developer-tools-episode-31/. Retrieved 7 May 2014. 
  8. "Multiple cursors for emacs.". https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el. 
  9. "Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors". http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html. Retrieved 24 May 2016. 
  10. "New gedit plugin: multi edit". https://blogs.gnome.org/jessevdk/2009/11/15/new-gedit-plugin-multi-edit/.  and a demo video.
  11. "Multi editing". https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/multi-editing.html. 
  12. "Multiple carets". https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/working-with-source-code.html#multiple_cursor. Retrieved 2 July 2020.