There's a lesser-known feature of some popular free text editors, which may come in handy in certain scenarios. Multi carets editing, as its name suggests, allows editing multiple lines at once. Here's how:
Notepad++ Enable Multi Carets Cursors Editing
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- Open a document you wish to edit.
- Click the exact position of where you want to start editing (a certain position in a line).
- Hold ALT+SHIFT, and click (or press DOWN ARROW) to select more (consecutive) lines for multi-editing.
- Now when you type/delete chars, it will affect all lines you've selected.
CudaText - Enable Multi Carets Cursors Editing
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- Open a document you wish to edit.
- Click the exact position of where you want to start editing (a certain position in a line).
- If you wish to select consecutive lines, hold CTRL+SHIFT, and click the last line for multi-editing.
- If you wish to select specific lines, hold CTRL, and click any other line for multi-editing.
- Now when you type/delete chars, it will affect all lines you've selected.