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refactoring (select a variable name, select all instances of that name, change), and also 1 time pre-processing data

• WillAbides 10y ago
  That makes sense. I use RubyMine's refactoring to rename all instances of a variable, but if that weren't available multi-cursor would certainly be a lot easier than copy-pasting.
• cyphar 10y ago
  > refactoring (select a variable name, select all instances of that name, change), regex works great for me in vim > 1 time pre-processing data I use regex for this most of the time, and macros if it's more complicated. I think macros are actually quite a bit more powerful than multiple cursors because you can apply the same set of transformations between files (and without needing to match against a particular word or pattern).