Which editors out of Emacs, Vim and JEdit support multiple simultaneous text insertion points?

Question

Background: JEdit (and some other text editors as well) support a feature called Multiple simultaneous text insertion points. (at least that\'s what I\'m callin

Answer 1

moccur-edit.el almost does what you want. All the locations matching the regexp are displayed, and the editing the matches makes changes in the corresponding source. However, the editing is done on a single instance of the occurrence.

I imagine it'd be straight forward to extend it to allow you to edit them all simultaneously (at least in the simple case).

There is a demo of it found here.

Turns out, the newest versions of moccur-edit don't apply changes in real-time - you must apply the changes. The changes are also now undoable (nice win).