# Sublime Text's Multiselect

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813>\
**Category:** Feature archive\
**Created:** [July 24, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813 "2022-07-24T08:26:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeLk](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@NeLk](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/NeLk)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813/1 "2022-07-24T08:26:16Z")

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Any chance we can get Sublime Text’s multi-select feature in Obsidian?

It is tremendously helpful to manipulate files that follow a particular pattern and modify them accordingly.

For example, you could have a list of items that have nothing in common but still select empty spaces and new lines and manipulate like so to draft a message that can be later batch processed.

![Multiselect2](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/8/e/8e0d1d6e2f84e34ad5d77a5f16822104783e02ac.gif)

Multiselecting your done/pending ToDo items and carrying them over to a new file,… multiselecting Obsidian across a document and renaming all entries of Obsidian to ObsidianMD, multiselecting all your H1 Headings and creating a table of contents almost instantly…

Over the years, it is one of the applications I’ve always **had to** install in every system I use due to the time saved when processing files with a pattern.

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**Author:** ![NeLk](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@NeLk](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/NeLk)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813/2 "2022-07-24T08:37:40Z")

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In Sublime Text this feature can be used as simply as by selecting certain text and pressing multiple times Cmd+D / Ctrl + D

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**Author:** ![obsequious](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obsequious](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/obsequious)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813/3 "2022-07-24T10:30:50Z")

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On my mac, `option+Click` already does work to create multiple cursors. (I’m guessing thanks to this [CodeMirror Reference Manual](https://codemirror.net/docs/ref/#state.EditorState%5EallowMultipleSelections))

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**Author:** ![Atlas](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Atlas](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Atlas)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813/4 "2022-07-24T14:50:11Z")

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There are two plugins that have this feature

- [GitHub - timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts: Obsidian plugin to add keyboard shortcuts commonly found in code editors such as Visual Studio Code (vscode) or Sublime Text](https://github.com/timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts)
- [GitHub - timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts: Obsidian plugin to add keyboard shortcuts commonly found in code editors such as Visual Studio Code (vscode) or Sublime Text](https://github.com/timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts)

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sublime-texts-multiselect/40813/5 "2022-08-11T06:41:19Z")

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Closed on August 11, 2022, 6:41am UTC

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