Is there a trick to spawn a cursor on all matching occurences in one action?

[ghost]

Hi

Is there some way to use "SpawnMultiCursorSelect" to add a cursor to every matching string in the file? Rather than keeping alt-n pressed to select one by one?

[Andriamanitra]

Nothing built-in but you can write a little Lua to do it:

~/.config/micro/init.lua

local config = import("micro/config")

function spawnMultiCursorAll(bp)
    bp:SpawnMultiCursor()
    local previousCursorCount = -1
    local cursorCount = #bp.Buf:GetCursors()
    while cursorCount > previousCursorCount do
        previousCursorCount = cursorCount
        bp:SpawnMultiCursor()
        cursorCount = #bp.Buf:GetCursors()
    end
end

-- (optional) add a command for it
function init()
    config.MakeCommand("multicursorall", spawnMultiCursorAll, config.NoComplete)
end

~/.config/micro/bindings.json

{
    // call the function directly
    "Alt-m": "lua:initlua.spawnMultiCursorAll",
    // or use the command
    "Alt-n": "command:multicursorall"
}

[ghost]

Thank you, that works perfectly!

I would suggest considering making such function part of the core program, or at least providing a ready made plugin. I would assume micro appeals to other non coders who want an efficient text editor.