MultiCursor

An aborted attempt to provide Sublime-Text-like multi cursor support for text editors in the Eclipse IDE.

Fork of eclipse-multicursor on Github

Now Support Eclipse 2024-06 and later, Mac OS X, Linux (with nautilus) and Windows.

Use

• Select All Same Words (All): Ctrl+Alt+F
  (Place the cursor on a word and press the shortcut to select all occurrences. Then type to change them.
  Note: does not support adjacent matches, e.g., ssss searching for ss.)

• Select Same Word (Next, Next): Ctrl+Alt+D
  (Place the cursor on a word and press the shortcut to select the next occurrence. Then type to change it.
  Note: does not support adjacent matches, e.g., ssss searching for ss.)

• Select Remaining Same Words (Rest All): Ctrl+Alt+N
  (Place the cursor on a word and press the shortcut to select all remaining occurrences. Then type to change them.
  Note: does not support adjacent matches, e.g., ssss searching for ss.)

• Custom Multiple Selections (Multiple Positions): Ctrl+Alt+V
  (Place the cursor at the desired insertion point and press the shortcut to mark it.)

Build

This project uses Tycho with Maven to build. It requires Maven 3.9.0 or higher version.

Dev build:

mvn clean verify

Release build:

mvn clean org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=2.0.0 verify

Install

1. Add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tlcsdm/eclipse-multicursor/update_site/ as the upgrade location in Eclipse.
2. Download from Jenkins

3. ← Drag it to your eclipse workbench to install! (I recommand Main Toolbar as Drop Target)