[m_mueller]

When refactoring: Instead of typing fast, use ST multicursors or VI/emacs macros in an intelligent way. And I really really recommend ST if you don't want to debug your editor macros before debugging your build macros before debugging your code macros before debugging your code (yo dawg etcetera).

[sophacles]

On the other end are us visual thinkers. I could do all of that proficiently just fine. In fact I do plenty of macros and scripts and so on. But at the end of the day, I think in pictures. I end up using a lot of editor short cuts and "lots of keypresses" style refactoring while I work out the shape I really want. Then, when I get that, fire off some macros to deal with the rest, cleanup, etc.

[m_mueller]

That's what I like so much about multicursors: It's a visual way of mass editing.