Feature request: Multiple cursors

Cătălin Bălan
2026-04-16T09:37:27Z

I absolutely love Text Pieces. It lets me move temporary edits outside of my main IDE and lets me get rid of a ton of IDE extensions and is overall great. Thank you!

I'd like to start a discussion about multiple cursors, even if the feature gets formally rejected.

One of my main uses of a tool like Text Pieces is applying a transformation to a large batch of text selections. For example: base64 encode 200 inputs. A common way I would do that in VSCode is select the 200 inputs, one per line, and apply the transformation to all of them.

I fully understand that multiple cursors is NOT a straightforward feature to add. It involves lots of UI work (visuals for multiple selections, typing would insert text in multiple places, backspace/delete could collapse multiple selections into a single one), exposing multiple new keyboard shortcuts (adding next selection by searching, finding all selections by searching, splitting selection by lines) and mouse shortcuts (something like ctrl+click to add a new selection). Not only that, it is a complex feature that most users may not ever discover.

However, it would enable that any action is applied multiple times independently to each selection.

Is multiple cursors a reasonable feature for Text Pieces?