Simultaneous editing
In human–computer interaction, simultaneous editing is an end-user development technique allowing a user to make multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection at once through direct manipulation.
Multiple selections and cursors are typically created by using a keyboard shortcut to select repeated instances of the same text or text fragments surrounded by the same delimiters, by using a search feature to select all instances of a search term, by selecting the same column in multiple lines, or by selecting text or cursor positions with a mouse. The Lapis experimental web browser and text editor is also able to infer selections based on concept learning from positive and negative examples given by the user during a process known as selection guessing.[1]
Tools for data wrangling (mass reformatting) also sometimes include tools for simultaneous editing of all data in a column or category.
Editors supporting simultaneous editing
- Simultaneous editing in Lapis[2]
- Multiple selections and column selections in Sublime Text[3][4]
- Multiple cursors in Cloud9[5]
- Multi-cursor package in Atom[6]
- Multiple selections in Visual Studio Code[7]
- Multiple selections in Firefox developer tools[8]
- Multiple-cursors in Emacs[9][10]
- Multi Edit plug-in for gedit[11]
- Multi-Editing Settings in Notepad++[12]
See also
References
- ↑ "LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure".
- ↑ "LAPIS - Editing Text with Lightweight Structure". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love with". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Try Out Sublime Text 2 For Your Cross-Platform Code Editing Needs". Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ↑ "Multiple Cursors - Cloud9". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Multi-cursor package". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Multiple selections (multi-cursor)". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ↑ Heather Arthur and Robert Nyman (May 7, 2014). "Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31". Mozilla. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ↑ "Multiple cursors for emacs.".
- ↑ "Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "New gedit plugin: multi edit". and a demo video.
- ↑ "Multi editing".
- Copy-and-Paste between Overlapping Windows by Olivier Chapuis, Nicolas Roussel. In Proceedings of CHI'07. "Other systems have been proposed to support fast copy-paste of multiple selections or text entities like phone numbers"
- Citeseer
- LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure introductory article.
- Lightweight Structured Text Processing, an extended description
- Robert C. Miller, Brad A. Myers: Multiple selections in smart text editing. 103-110, IUI 2002, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, January 13–16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. ACM, 2002, ISBN 1-58113-459-2