Multi Cursor Selection like Atom

[Dr. Olaf Marthiens]

Hello developer,

is it possible to select several identical words to change them?

Clion (alt+j), AtomEditor (ctrl+d) can do that.

You mark a text passage, then press the keyboard shortcut to mark the
next text passage that occurs immediately and the editor is in special
mode. With the cursor keys the position of all caret can be changed
relatively. The text can be changed or marked. The carets work
relatively from the position and syncron. ESC ends this mode.

It would be a great extension and I could switch from Clion to
Kdevelop.

regards,
Olaf (Germany)

[Sven Brauch]

Post by Dr. Olaf Marthiens
is it possible to select several identical words to change them?
Clion (alt+j), AtomEditor (ctrl+d) can do that.
You mark a text passage, then press the keyboard shortcut to mark the
next text passage that occurs immediately and the editor is in special
mode. With the cursor keys the position of all caret can be changed
relatively. The text can be changed or marked. The carets work
relatively from the position and syncron. ESC ends this mode.

There's the "multicursor" branch in ktexteditor which does this but
unfortunately it still has a few bugs (e.g. double-click-and-drag select
behaves a bit strangely, and the old column mode is kinda broken). Help
in fixing it up so it could potentially be merged would be very welcome.

Best,
Sven