[acedTrex]

Vim has visual block mode for multi cursor which you can enter with ctrl-v

[mknsri]

Yeah that works for selecting contiguous blocks of text. Multi-cursor editing allows for selecting rows that are further apart.

[petepete]

vim-visual-multi works well.

https://github.com/mg979/vim-visual-multi

I do wish it was built in (like in vis) though

https://github.com/martanne/vis