Cursor change when multi-region

[juanfal]

The amazing and one of the best facts ST handles masterfully is the interaction with multiple regions at the same time, but its user interface is only “2 selection regions” at the bottom of the window. It makes us make mistakes frequently as we can only be seeing the only cursor you have in the front window area but not the many other cursors that can be outside it. It would be no so complicated to clearly change cursor appearence when more than one cursor is active.

Of course, this idea could be extended to the situation in which you are in an active snippet, changing the cursor and/or signing where the cursor would jump with TABs…

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[OdatNurd]

This thread includes a plugin that does exactly this:

Difference when multiple selection

One way to do that would be a plugin like the following (see here if you’re unsure about how to use plugins): import sublime import sublime_plugin import functools class GiantCursorEventListener(sublime_plugin.ViewEventListener): pending = 0 def on_selection_modified_async(self): self.pending += 1 sublime.set_timeout_async(functools.partial(self.update_cursor), 500) def update_cursor(self): self.pending -= 1 if self.pending != 0: retu…

[juanfal]

Thanks a lot!! It works. Only a small delay in updating cursor width, but can be really useful!!!