Sublime Text 2 Tutorials #6 - Using Multi Select

The 6th video in the Sublime Text 2 tutorial series. Here I give a brief overview of Sublime Text 2's multi select features.

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[therflash]

Drop the mouse guys, just FORGET IT! We're bloody coders, not graphic designers, we don't need mouse! Mouse slows you down. By default, alt+shift+up/down makes one more cursor above or below other cursors for you. Ctrl+right/left moves all cursors one word right/left, alt+right/left moves by sub-words (underscore separated or camel case ), ctrl+shift+L splits all the selections in separate lines. Forget using mouse, it's too slow. Use shortcuts, it's orders of magnitude faster.

[LevelUpTuts]

I agree that using the keyboard is faster, however I disagree that there is inherently a right and wrong way to code. The mouse aids me as any other tool, no need to completely dismiss it. Do whatever allows you to code most efficiently.

[Александр Тарасов]

for windows users:

multiple selections with mouse right button:

-Ctrl to add to the selection

-Alt to remove from the selection

Dragging with the mouse wheel will do a column selection. You can use Ctrl and Alt with this too. Shift+Right mouse button is an alternative way to initial a column select.

search:

Alt+F3 to find all occurrences of the current word or selected text

[LevelUpTuts]

Thanks! I've been meaning to do these videos in Windows but my mic manufacturers decided not to make drivers for Windows, so I have to find a different mic for those videos.

[TheSamohon]

Thanks Scott... I use ZenCoding with ST2, a simple command like,,,

div#page>div.logo+ul#navigatio­n>li*5>a

and receive an UL with 5 LI's waiting to be populated

But multi-select inside ST2 is great... Thanks again...

[LevelUpTuts]

I've been a huge fan of using Emmet / Zen lately. I find it even faster to code than using HAML on my Rails projects.

[therflash]

Ah, I see, it's different in Windows. You're right, it's ctrl+alt+up/down in windows.

[Shougo Amakusa]

It is ctrl+alt+up/down for more cursors.

[angelwhite]

The mouse doesn't actually allow you to code more efficiently. More efficiently than before you used it, maybe, but not more efficiently than knowing the proper keyboard shortcuts. Anyway, had to downvote, b/c I'm really just trying to figure out how to do what TM1 does, where I highlight a column using option. It's really far to cumbersome to do this via mouse. therflash says I can do this with alt+shift+up/down, but I'm on a mac, so no alt. Tried cmd, but that jumped to begin/end of doc.

[therflash]

I take it back, the second video is not good. I use mouse a lot, but never to point cursors in text (Ok, maybe once a day). Sublime has so many search functions, you just don't need mouse. Unless it's some complicated position in text, using appropriate search is about 20 times faster than using mouse. Try at least ctrl+D, alt+shift+up/down, ctrl+(shift+)right/left, alt+(shift+)right/left, ctrl+i type search and alt+enter for "search all" And "search in selection". You'll save tons of time.

[therflash]

You just don't know enough shortcuts. Ofcourse, there are many ways to juggle the code, but every decent programmer tells you that mouse is horribly slow. This is what multiple cursors are for (shame it's emacs): watch?v=jNa3axo40qM

You can do the same with sublime, except renaming files like that.

This one is not bad either... It seems there are very few videos that show decent use of multiple cursors. What a shame.

watch?v=ZMpTk6D544Y

[TheSamohon]

Thanks Scott, I'll have a look. Anything to make the process easier...

[Frank Smith]

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