How to collapse multiple cursors?

[mankinskin]

Hi, is there a way to collapse multiple cursors after selecting multiple pieces using s in a selection?

what I did here was v, move down, s, type "response", Enter, ms), u, move around.

Is there a key to collapse the multiple cursors into one, like the top one? I know of ; but that doesn't do it.

[sudormrfbin]

, (comma) should do the trick. Versions prior to and including 0.4.1 use <space> <space> instead.

[pickfire]

I think we should have a tutorial like vimtutor for these additional functionalities.

[mankinskin]

@sudormrfbin that did it, thanks

@pickfire I don't think that is needed, I never really used the vimtutor either. I think a complete documentation and something like an extensive FAQ you can search would help the most.

[matu3ba]

I disagree insofar as having related things grouped together is not a FAQ structure.

[mankinskin]

I disagree insofar as having related things grouped together is not a FAQ structure.

but what I am talking about is an FAQ, i.e. "How do I collapse multiple cursors? - <space> <space>"

[Omnikar]

TO OTHER USERS READING THIS DISCUSSION: <space><space> is no longer the mapping, it is now ,.

[archseer]

(on master and from next release onward)

[qstommyshu]

Wouldn't ";" be more intuitive for collapsing multi cursors, as helix already have ";" to collapse selection? ";" can be a standard collapsing key press for helix?

[k3d3]

Agreed on this; I kept using semicolon to collapse multiple selections, and I was confused why it didn't work in this scenario but did in basically every other.

I suppose in hindsight it's a different operation (semicolon to remove the highlight, comma to un-highlight everything except the current one), but I definitely think it's best to keep the comma the same, but have the semicolon also collapse multiple selections.

[maclong9]

So I was looking for how to close multiple cursors after using c and ended up discovering how powerful the selection feature is in this editor!

[gokayburuc]

press Space + ? and write collapse_selection you can find useful keybindings there.

[medanimohamedakram]

The collapse_selection would collapse any cursor selection to a single character cursor selection, not the number of cursor in the editor.
There should be something like collapse_cursor to make things more obvious.