Sublime Text 2 multiple line edit

Question

Highlight the lines and use:

• Windows: Ctrl+Shift+L
• Mac: Cmd ⌘+Shift+L

You can then move the cursor to your heart's content and edit all lines at once.

It's also called "Split into Lines" in the "Selection" menu.

Use multiple cursors and column selection.

In your case you just need to place the cursors at the beginning of each column containing the "words".

Linux and Windows

• Click & drag to select column(s): Shift + RightMouseBtn
• Add other column(s) to selection by click & drag: Ctrl + Shift + RightMouseBtn
• Subtract column(s) from the selection: Alt + Shift + RightMouseBtn
• Add individual cursors: Ctrl + LeftMouseBtn
• Remove individual cursors: Alt + LeftMouseBtn

Mac

• Click & drag to select column(s): Option⌥ + LeftMouseBtn
• Add other column(s) to selection by click & drag: Option⌥ + LeftMouseBtn
• Subtract column(s) from the selection: Cmd⌘ + Option⌥ + shift + LeftMouseBtn
• Add individual cursors: Cmd⌘ + LeftMouseBtn
• Remove individual cursors: Cmd⌘ + Option⌥ + shift + LeftMouseBtn

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Then edit as needed. In your case, type 0, x.

You could also navigate as needed to the end or beginning of the words, select the words and surround with quotes or parenthesis, and so on.

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References:

• Column selection

Worked for me on OS X + Sublime build 3083:

OPTION (ALT) + select lines

I'm not sure it's possible "out of the box". And, unfortunately, I don't know an appropriate plugin either. To solve the problem you suggested you could use regular expressions.

1. Cmd + F (Find)
2. Regexp: [^ ]+ (or \d+, or whatever you prefer)
3. Option + F (Find All)
4. Edit it

Hotkeys may vary depending on you OS and personal preferences (mine are for OS X).

I was facing the same problem on Linux, what I did was to select all the content (ctrl-A) and then press ctrl+shift+L, It gives you a cursor on each line and then you can add similar content to each column.

Also you can perform other operations like cut, copy and paste column wise.

PS :- If you want to select a rectangular set of data from text, you can also press shift and hold Right Mouse button and then select data in a rectangular fashion. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+L to get the cursor on each line.

Windows: I prefer Alt+F3 to search a string and change all instances of search string at once.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/selection

On Windows, I prefer Ctrl + Alt + Down.

It selects the lines one by one and automatically starts the multi-line editor mode. It is a bit faster this way. If you have a lot of lines to edit then selecting the text and Ctrl + Shift + L is a better choice.