[TxMt] Multiple simultaneous arbitrary caret locations (with optional highlighting)

[thomas Aylott]

>> [...] Has this been discussed before?  It seems plausible given  
>> the powerful way we can already "insert as snippet" to the document.
>
> This is slightly related to discontinuous selections, my view here  
> is, that sure it would be cool, but it would be used by very very  
> few users, it has no good use for keyboard users (which I myself  
> is) and it would make the source code much more complex, and  
> basically every single thing that deals with the caret or  
> selection, would have to deal with considerations arising from this  
> new ability -- so it would not just be one addition, it would hunt  
> me for the rest of eternity.
>
> IOW this is not happening anytime soon -- only if I find some very  
> clever abstraction, would I consider adding it.

Excellent points, all.
Maybe we'll just come up with some random command to make it work by  
replacing the document with a snippet.
Obviously it couldn't work exactly the same. :D

Thanks for letting us down easily