SolvedVim Feedback about Multi-Cursor Mode

This is a thread for feedback about Multi-Cursor Mode. I don't use it all that often, so I'm open to any and all suggestions about what it should do or be like.

@jdshaeffer html.mirrorCursorOnMatchingTag - added in VSCode 1.41

Has anybody tried using multiple cursors on Linux? I'm having no luck at all, neither with editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch nor editor.action.insertCursorAbove. In both cases any action carried out only hits the first cursor instance.

As of 0.3.0 (Windows, Code 1.5.3), it's very difficult to actually get into Multi-Cursor Mode from Normal Mode. Using the Add Cursor Above/Below shortcuts in Normal mode, it will expand the cursor appropriately but then the first command that gets invoked will only apply to the first line. See the following screencast:

The commands I tried were in this order:

• dw
• x
• i

Note that I was only able to get to mult-cursor/normal mode by first entering Insert mode, adding cursors, making a change, and then exiting into Normal mode again.

@johnfn I think that is not the expected behavior. When I select a block of text, I expect c or s to replace the text, not to enter insert mode and C-w to delete word. Even if I Esc to normal mode, ciw or cw still doesn't work.

Should we follow terryma/vim-multiple-cursors behavior? Since it will provide consistent experience across editor

I think it'd be super helpful to have surround.vim mode work with multiple cursors. Right now the surround is only applied to the first cursor: