I have rarely ever seen a problem and thought to myself I need multiple cursors. I admit it's useful for data wrangling but programming?

What are people using it for? I would love to see some real world usage.

I use multi-cursor editing daily. It’s very useful for aligning code, quick name changes, joining/expanding to multiple lines, etc.

Works best when paired with a "duplicate cursor at next match" keybind.

Find and replace does all of this, right?

Multi cursor edits feel nice during flow state, they let your brain stay in "edit" mode. However I only use them for edits of around 20-30 lines at a maximum.

Another use case for me is extracting interesting information from debug logs, where I don't want to think of a regex and the lines are similar enough.

multiple cursor is basic editor 101.

programmer' text editor need to have it as bare minimum. otherwise, i would have to go to sublime or vscode for text editing and then I will wonder why should I bother with this editor.

Yes I get that its a basic requirement for some people. I am asking why.

Extracting log entries from large files for troubleshooting, mass editing, mass formatting... This missing feature is the only reason I wasn't able to get far with the vim family: I didn't find a close enough way to do the same tasks as efficiently.

This has quickly become my favorite TUI text editor, even though it seemed like "yet another editor" when I first came across it

As someone who doesn't like modal options I used nano, micro, and ox in that order but Flow is a much nicer product than those 3

If you like helix it can also just us the modal editing and keybinds from it as well

Neovim with a few extensions installed by default. What other features does it have?