sublime text 2 - how to switch from command mode MULTI CURSOR to insert mode

Question

I'm learning sublime keyboard commands (Vintage Mode / VintageEx), and find it useful to be able to select a column of text (in vim I just do Ctrl + v then up or down, depending on the direction of the column I want to select). I guess sublime would handle this with multi cursor. So what I do now (since I can't seem to figure out a normal column selection on Ubuntu 12.04) is this:

In command mode:

• shift v to select the starting line
• up or down to select lines above or below the selected line
• ctrl + shift + l to insert multiple cursors at the end of the selected lines (STILL IN COMMAND MODE)
• Now I want to be able to go into insert mode, but pressing "i" doesn't go to insert mode. If I press "d" it will delete the selected lines and put me in insert mode...but I don't want to have to delete everything just to go into insert.

So, is there a good way to go into insert mode when you have multiple cursors in command mode? Thanks so much for any advice!

Answer 1

Multiple selections and cursors using vim / vintage mode and visual select in sublime text 2

In command mode:

• enter visual mode (v/V)
• select lines (j/k/movement)
• split into lines (Ctrl+Shift+L)
• exit visual mode (v)
• you should now be in command mode with multiple cursors :)
• enter input mode (i/a/etc..)
• edit with multiple cursors

Now how do you do it using vim's search keys, I can't get it yet. (/,n,N)

How many times did you try to enter command mode while writing your question ?