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The Power of Multi-Cursors

February 16, 2026

If you're still manually renaming variables one by one across a file, your keyboard is waiting for you to discover the power of multi-cursors. Highlighting a word and hitting `Cmd+D` (or `Ctrl+D` on Windows) will select the next occurrence of that exact string.

It’s an absolute game-changer for refactoring small blocks of code or repetitive HTML tags. Once you have multiple cursors active, anything you type or delete happens in all spots simultaneously. It feels like a superpower once it becomes muscle memory.