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
- Simultaneous editing in Lapis[2]
- Multiple selections in Sublime Text[3]
- Multiple cursors in Cloud9[4]
- Multi-cursor package in Atom[5]
- Multiple selections in Visual Studio Code[6]
- Multiple selections in Firefox developer tools[7]
- Multiple-cursors in Emacs[8][9]
- Multi Edit plug-in for gedit[10]
- Multi-Editing Settings in Notepad++[11]
- Multiple carets in PyCharm[12]
- Column Edit Mode in Vi and Vi derivatives such as Vim
See also
References
- ↑ "LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure".
- ↑ "LAPIS - Editing Text with Lightweight Structure". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Multiple Cursors - Cloud9". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Multi-cursor package". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Multiple selections (multi-cursor)". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ↑ Heather Arthur and Robert Nyman (May 7, 2014). "Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31". Mozilla. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ↑ "Multiple cursors for emacs". GitHub.
- ↑ "Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "New gedit plugin: multi edit". and a demo video.
- ↑ "Multi editing". Archived from the original on 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
- ↑ "Multiple carets". Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- 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, ISBN 1-58113-459-2