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How to do multiple line editing?

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How do you edit multiple lines at once?

Select the lines you want and then press: Windows: Shift + Alt + i. Mac: shift + option + i.

How do you multiply cursors?

For multi-line selection, Ctrl+Alt+Down / ⌘+Alt+Shift+Down will extend your selection or cursor position to the next line. Ctrl+Right / ⌘+Right will move to the end of each line, no matter how long. To escape the multi-line selection, hit Esc .

How do you Click multiple lines?

Place your cursor somewhere in or next to the first word you wish to select. While holding down Ctrl (Windows & Linux) or Command (Mac OS X), click in the next word you wish to select. Repeat until you've selected the words you want to change.


Press alt + shift + A to Toggle block selection (Toggle block / column selection in the current text editor), this will let you write vertically in eclipse, then you can easily do this.


Go to Window->Preferences.

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On OS X, the key combination for multi-line edits in Eclipse (or STS) is option/alt+command+A


You can try the following plugin,

https://github.com/caspark/eclipse-multicursor/releases

With this multiple occurrence of same text can be selected and edited. This is similar to multi select functionality available in editors like Sublime and Visual studio code.


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