Being able to have multiple cursors via ctrl+click, and multiple selections by ctrl+drag. Kate user for 14 years. When I found out this feature in Atom I thought it was useless. After using it for less than 2 years, now I can't do without. Sublime Text is another popular editor with this feature. When pasting multiple selections, it should paste one in each selection if the number of selections match the clipboard; otherwise paste all joined as lines in all cursors. Random gifs of the feature: https://packagecontrol.io/readmes/img/d346da37ce3d306f23f960f2a103fbc0f4562034.gif https://blog.codepen.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/multiple-cursors.gif (this is codepen but it works the same) http://www.codinglabs.net/public/mixedit/CTRLD-Animation.gif (this last one is another editor I don't know, it uses "ctrl+D" but I would very happy by just ctrl+clicking each word then ctrl+left arrow to jump to the beginning of each word)
Oops, looks like the first gif is Sublime Text. It works the same as Atom anyway.
We have this implemented in the "multicursor" branch, but it needs polishing and bugfixing before it can be merged. If you want to spend some time on that... very welcome! See https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/ktexteditor/ for a list of remaining issues.
Wonderful! I didn't even know it was being worked on. I will try to help if I have some time in the near future.
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users. If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in a year again. We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/ Greetings Christoph Cullmann