[dandotway]

> I said that multiple cursors are a gimmick which is less efficient

My Dear Dude, you are surely aware that computer editors are Religion among programmers, that vi vs. emacs, tabs vs. spaces, etc., have been fiercely debated for decades and will continue to be fiercely debated for decades to come. Thus, like all matters of politics and religion, if you are going to insult the Editor Religion of your fellow programmer and call it a gimmick, you might do well to at least accept the challenge when foul is cried and the gauntlet is thrown down demanding a scorable, quantifiable, objective, numerical measure of your performance claim that settles the question as fact rather than opinion.

But you would do better still to refrain from insults like 'gimmick', especially when the programmer whose favored multi-cursor feature you are insulting has demonstrated a deep interest in the history of computer editors, naming out ed/vi/vim/emacs/Sam/Acme/VSCodium, etc., and fully understands how to do ':%s/foo/bar/gc' in vim and the more powerful things documented by ':h :s' within vim and the even more powerful things yet in Acme involving the 'x' and 'X' commands but despite all this has found that multi-cursor can usually finish the edit before even half of that ':s///' command can be typed or a suitable regular expression mentally devised that gobbles the correct substrings on the correct lines without accidentally gobbling incorrect substrings on incorrect lines or incorrect substrings on correct lines or correct substrings on incorrect lines.