<p dir="auto">Hi there,</p>
<p dir="auto">In Sublime Text, when you hold the "alt" key and click and drag the cursor, it will automatically create an instance of the cursor in the place where the cursor is touching (I suggest giving it a try, it is kind of complicated to explain).</p>
<p dir="auto">Atom should have this, since it would be a big game changer for what it delivers in terms of speed coding flexibility :)</p>
<p dir="auto">Is this planned for the near future?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks in advance!</p>
<p dir="auto">In plenty editors, doing <code class="notranslate">left-alt</code> (left option) and selecting text will take a slice of that text:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020145/21a1ced6-df9b-11e3-9cf2-70371ca5fee1.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020145/21a1ced6-df9b-11e3-9cf2-70371ca5fee1.gif" alt="sublime" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Notice that only characters are selected, empty lines are ignored. Also, after selecting with <code class="notranslate">left-alt</code>, there should be multi-cursors at the end of each selection:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020149/2d06c1c8-df9b-11e3-9a39-226039d0f777.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020149/2d06c1c8-df9b-11e3-9a39-226039d0f777.gif" alt="reslice" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">The GIF are from Sublime, the same behavior is observed in TextMate, IntelliJ, vim (visual selection).</p>
<p dir="auto">The current behavior in Atom is to perform a normal text selection:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020155/3bbc4512-df9b-11e3-97a8-1acab2dd686f.gif"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1189716/3020155/3bbc4512-df9b-11e3-97a8-1acab2dd686f.gif" alt="atom" data-animated-image="" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>