Upgrade Multiline Editing

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Currently Joplin supports Multiline editing, But in some pretty limited ways.

Currently Supported:

  • Placing Multiple Individual cursors (ctrl+Lclick)
  • Placing a line of cursors (ctrl+alt+Lclick+drag)
  • Creating a square selection (ctrl+alt+Lclick+drag)
  • Editing at multiple cursors simultaneously

Now, dont get me wrong, this is awesome, but there is some functionality I wish it had.

What I wish it had:

  • Option to Change keybinding for Multiline actions (ex. Use Alt as modifier instead of Ctrl)
  • Ability to Square Select using 2 clicks instead of click+drag (ex. Place 1 cursor, then shift+alt+Lclick to create square selection)
  • Shortcut key for placing additional cursor above/below current cursor (Refer to ctrl+alt+up/down in VScode editor)
  • Ability to place a cursor at every instance found in search (ex. In VScode, ctrl+f to search, then press alt+enter to create a multicursor selection with every instance of the search match)

These really are power-user nit-picks, and I see that this wouldnt be very useful for a lot of people. But the way I use Joplin, I would find it very helpful. Thought it would be worth suggesting :+1:.

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I don't think these are power-user nit-picks. Many of us use code editors like Visual Studio Code (to name one), and this multicursor set of features is now commonplace. Morover, Joplin has alreadey embraced many of the actions, as you well pointed. I second that we should have a way to add a new cursor on the line above or below via keyboard shortcut. Even more important is the cursor placing at each instance found in search.