<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Apr 22, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Duane Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">So I bounced this idea off of Soryu and it seems this hasn't been discussed much. What if you could add multiple carets to the current document by command-clicking? I imaging this to work in a way almost identical to that of the current snippet mechanism. For example: choose three caret locations, start typing, and in each location your text will show up. Press tab and the caret will focus in on the second of the two locations, highlighting the newly typed text (if any). Tab again and it moves to the third.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">It would also be ideal to be able to highlight multiple selections in the same way--kind of like a powerful replace mechanism. Command-click and select three words in the document, then type one new word, and incrementally, all three words change to the new one.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Has this been discussed before? It seems plausible given the powerful way we can already "insert as snippet" to the document.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>That's good thinking.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I really like that idea.</DIV><DIV>It would be like instantly converting the document to a snippet </DIV><DIV>adding snippet placeholders to the locations you just cmd-clicked (either at those cursor locations or around each of those selections)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Each one would be placeholder $1 surrounded by incremental placeholders, </DIV><DIV>so at first all type as one but then you can tab to each.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That would be stinking awesome.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">thomas Aylott—</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">subtleGradient—</SPAN></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;; font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><A href="mailto:oblivious@subtleGradient.com">oblivious@subtleGradient.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>