magnars/multiple-cursors.el

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An Emacs Lisp package that adds multiple-cursor editing to Emacs, letting users place several cursors and edit many locations simultaneously. It is available on MELPA and NonGNU ELPA and has been in daily use by the author since 2011.

Use cases

• add a cursor to every line in a selected region
• mark and edit all occurrences of a word at once
• edit multiple non-contiguous locations simultaneously
• perform repetitive text edits across a buffer in one pass
• rename similar tokens in a file without regex

When to choose

• you use Emacs and want Sublime-style multi-cursor editing
• you need to make the same edit in many places in a buffer
• you want a mature, lightweight package installable from MELPA

When to avoid

• you use a different editor than Emacs
• you need guaranteed upstream support for edge cases, since the issue tracker is closed
• you need features the author does not personally use, as fixes are best-effort

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

editor text-editors developer-tools cross-platform emacs-lisp multiple-cursors editing melpa emacs

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