[moe]

Thanks man, that does indeed add working search/replace!

Giving Sublime a whirl now. If nothing else it's going to be an interesting discovery of which Vim features I really use in my daily workflow.

Edit: Sadly bumped right into the next issue. It seems in addition to the lack of Vim's visual-block-mode the native multi-select (Ctrl-Shift-L) doesn't work in vintage either. No multi-line editing at all is a bit of a showstopper.

Anyway, there's always a next version, I'm not giving up hope. :)

[hyperturtle]

The only thing I found that was similar was holding down shift and drag selecting with the right mouse button.

[jscoder]

I'm not that much into Vi(m) but a visual mode is available in Vintage mode? Press ESC, v.

[dguaraglia]

I think he's referring to the "column" visual mode, that allows you to make a rectangular selection and delete/insert/replace it.

[moe]

Yes, in particular the "bulk edit actions" (not sure if they have a proper name) that you can do in Vim in either visual mode.

E.g. make visual selection, shift-I = prepend text to all selected lines. This is the same functionality as sublime multi-line editing. The problem is that neither seems to work in vintage-mode (or I'm just too dense to figure out how).

Edit: Nevermind, it works now after I started over with a fresh config. Apparently I had something bad stuck in there from earlier experiments. Thanks for the replies!

[losvedir]

Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you're missing, but I do believe sublime can do what you want.

* Search/replace: ctrl-f will do find (and you can use a reg-ex, case insensitive, etc, based on the little toggles to the left of the find bar. Then hit "Find all" on the right, and everything in that file will be highlighted and you'll have multiple cursors. So from there, just type what you want to replace all the words with, or really do whatever you want with your multiple cursors.

* "bulk edit actions": Works just fine for me in vintage mode. Highlight each line you want (or repeatedly press ctrl-l to add a line to your selection), hit ctrl-shift-l to get multiple cursors, and then do what you want from there. Example:

You're in vintage/command mode. Highlight three lines. Hit ctrl-l to flesh out the top and bottom lines (so the whole line is in the selection, and not just where you started and ended your mouse drag). Hit ctrl-shift-l for multiple cursors. Now you have three separate cursors, each in command mode. So you can hit "I", and you will go into insert mode three times simultaneously with three cursors at the beginning of three lines. Type "blah", and it will appear at the beginning of each of the three lines.

[edanm]

Last time I checked it worked.

Try selecting several lines in vintage mode, then hitting Ctrl+l?