Editor feature that spans multiple cells

[eteq]

Right now if I do an alt-click (or ctrl-d) in the notebook extension it behaves just like the regular editor within a single cell. However, my workflow often involves using multi-select throughout a notebook because I have the same variable/whatever repeated in multiple cells near each other, but not in the same cell. It would be extremely useful if there was a way to make multi-cursor selections span multiple cells.

In fact, my work flow right now is to open a notebook in text only mode and use multi-select there with the jupyterlab interface open in a browser window. With this feature implemented I could dispense with the headaches of saving and reloading there and have it all in one vscode interface.

[IanMatthewHuff]

Thanks for the suggestion. That does sound like a handy feature. Right now each cell is (as you noticed) treated as a separate editor.

[greazer]

Supporting this across cells is a core Code issue to solve.

[vscodenpa]

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