Simultaneous editing

In human–computer interaction, simultaneous editing is an end-user development technique allowing a user to make multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection at once through direct manipulation.

For workgroup tools allowing several users to edit the same document, see collaborative editing and collaborative real-time editor.

Multiple selections and cursors are typically created by using a keyboard shortcut to select repeated instances of the same text or text fragments surrounded by the same delimiters, by using a search feature to select all instances of a search term, by selecting the same column in multiple lines, or by selecting text or cursor positions with a mouse. The Lapis experimental web browser and text editor is also able to infer selections based on concept learning from positive and negative examples given by the user during a process known as selection guessing.[1]

Tools for data wrangling (mass reformatting) also sometimes include commands for simultaneous editing of all data in a column or category.

Editors supporting simultaneous editing
gollark: Actually, my smart fridge is important, necessary, and totally not part of 91257 botnets.
gollark: Ancient industrial control systems plugged into the public internet and such.
gollark: I might be somewhat biased by my CS/sysadmin knowledge, but it seems like many computer systems are incredibly vulnerable for no good reason.
gollark: Well, yes.
gollark: It does seem like terrorists are weirdly ineffective. If I wanted to destabilize Western civilization I expect I could do a better job.(Hi government agents!)

See also

References
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