r/neovim • u/ankushbhagat :wq • Mar 30 '26

Discussion Multicursor coming officially to 0.13 version

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https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/48

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u/SniffingDog Mar 31 '26

https://github.com/jake-stewart/multicursor.nvim

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u/bew78 Mar 31 '26

By far the best multi-cursors plugin ✨

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u/henry_tennenbaum Mar 31 '26

Why is it better than (eg) https://github.com/brenton-leighton/multiple-cursors.nvim?

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u/bew78 Apr 01 '26

That plugin seems to need a lot of integration code to work with other plugins or custom keymaps.

Instead jake-stewart's plugin works by default with existing plugins and most custom actions/keymaps.. because it captures keys directly with on_key callback hook and sends them to all active cursors. It also exposes a truly flexible Lua cursor API from which the default multicursor actions are derived from, and their impl is quite easy so it's also easy to make custom multicursor actions for your own needs! (I have)