cursor-leader

Keyboard-driven multi-cursor creation and navigation commands.

Features

• Cursor creation: Toggle new cursors anywhere.
• Cursor navigation: Switch between cursors.
• Active cursor highlight: Visual indicator when multiple cursors exist.
• Single cursor movement: Individual cursor movement and selection commands.
• Power mode: Temporarily isolate active cursor for all operations.
• Cursor consolidation: Merge all cursors to the active cursor position.
• Overtype compatibility: Works with overtype-mode.
• Column selection compatibility: Works with column-selection, including in power mode.

Installation

To install cursor-leader search for cursor-leader in the Install pane of the Pulsar settings or run ppm install cursor-leader. Alternatively, you can run ppm install asiloisad/pulsar-cursor-leader to install a package directly from the GitHub repository.

Commands

Commands available in atom-text-editor:

• cursor-leader:power-global: Ctrl+Alt+Insert toggle power mode for all editors,
• cursor-leader:power-editor: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Insert toggle power mode for the active editor,
• cursor-leader:toggle: toggle cursor instance,
• cursor-leader:previous: Ctrl+Alt+PageUp activate next cursor,
• cursor-leader:next: Ctrl+Alt+PageDown activate previous cursor,
• cursor-leader:reset,
• cursor-leader:remove,
• cursor-leader:move-up: Ctrl+Alt+Up,
• cursor-leader:move-down: Ctrl+Alt+Down,
• cursor-leader:move-left: Ctrl+Alt+Left,
• cursor-leader:move-right: Ctrl+Alt+Right,
• cursor-leader:move-to-top,
• cursor-leader:move-to-bottom,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-screen-line,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-line,
• cursor-leader:move-to-first-character-of-line,
• cursor-leader:move-to-end-of-screen-line,
• cursor-leader:move-to-end-of-line,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-word,
• cursor-leader:move-to-end-of-word,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-next-word,
• cursor-leader:move-to-previous-word-boundary,
• cursor-leader:move-to-next-word-boundary,
• cursor-leader:move-to-previous-subword-boundary,
• cursor-leader:move-to-next-subword-boundary,
• cursor-leader:skip-leading-whitespace,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-next-paragraph,
• cursor-leader:move-to-beginning-of-previous-paragraph,
• cursor-leader:select-right,
• cursor-leader:select-left,
• cursor-leader:select-up,
• cursor-leader:select-down,
• cursor-leader:select-to-top,
• cursor-leader:select-to-bottom,
• cursor-leader:select-to-beginning-of-line,
• cursor-leader:select-to-first-character-of-line,
• cursor-leader:select-to-end-of-line,
• cursor-leader:select-to-end-of-buffer-line,
• cursor-leader:select-to-beginning-of-word,
• cursor-leader:select-to-end-of-word,
• cursor-leader:select-to-beginning-of-next-word,
• cursor-leader:select-to-previous-word-boundary,
• cursor-leader:select-to-next-word-boundary,
• cursor-leader:select-to-previous-subword-boundary,
• cursor-leader:select-to-nextsubword-boundary,
• cursor-leader:select-to-beginning-of-next-paragraph,
• cursor-leader:select-to-beginning-of-previous-paragraph,
• cursor-leader:select-word,
• cursor-leader:expand-over-word,
• cursor-leader:expand-over-line,
• cursor-leader:outdent-selected-rows,
• cursor-leader:toggle-line-comments,
• cursor-leader:indent-selected-rows.

Power mode

Power mode isolates all editor operations to the active cursor only. When enabled, built-in commands (typing, deletion, indentation, etc.) as well as cursor-leader move and select commands affect only the active cursor, leaving all other cursors untouched.

There are two scopes:

• Global (cursor-leader:power-global): enables power mode for all open editors and any editor opened afterward. The ⚡ status bar icon reflects this state and clicking it toggles global power mode.
• Editor (cursor-leader:power-editor): toggles power mode for the active editor only, independently of the global state.

Use cases:

• Adjust one cursor's position without disturbing the others before a coordinated edit.
• Delete or select text on a single cursor while keeping remaining cursors in place.

Customization

The style can be adjusted according to user preferences in the styles.less file:

• e.g. change active cursor highlight color:

atom-text-editor .cursors .cursor.cursor-leader-highlight {
  border-left-color: @text-color-warning;
}

Contributing

Got ideas to make this package better, found a bug, or want to help add new features? Just drop your thoughts on GitHub. Any feedback is welcome!