Multi Edit with multiple selections

[mrlami]

something similar to what e-texteditor does on windows or textmate on mac would be great.

I am not advertising for "e" but I really liked it after watching their screencast on their home page.

This will be a good feature for Rapid PHP.

[CaliforniaJerry]

Since some of us are not familiar with what e-TextEditor and TextMate do, can you give a detailed description of what you like about them...? I'd be interested to know. Thanks.

[EvilBMP]

As I am interested in this feature too, I will explain it with some examples...

First example ... imagine you have a tiny code snippet with some bad variable naming...

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$a   = getSomeValue();
$tmp = $a;
$a   = substr($a, 0, 5);

Now you want to change the variable name of $a to a more meaningful one. So you would mark all occurences of $a and start typing the new variable name. Immidiately all marks change as you type... and the variable name is updated in one step.

Or another example... imagine you want to add some inline comments add the end of some lines.

You simply mark the end of the lines and start typing e.g. // some comment. Immidiately you written comment is attached to every line ending of your marked lines.

+1 from me

Greets