PyCharm: Turning selection to multiple cursors per line

Question

Sublime Text has this functionality where you can select text and start editing each line with a (multiple) cursor:

Answer 1

Hold Alt and drag the mouse over the desired text.

Source: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/selecting-text-in-the-editor.html

Answer 2

Press SHIFT + DownArrow ( instead of mouse and drag) in pycharm for multi cursor editing

Answer 3

You can use plugin Extra Actions.

You must add a combination to this action:

Split Selection into Lines

No shortcuts are set by default.

You can easily set them by going to

Settings > Keymap > Plugins > Extra Actions

Configuring keyboard shortcuts.

Answer 4

Sublime like features for MacOS X in PyCharm:

Select/Unselect the next occurrence with Ctrl+G / Shift+Ctrl+G

Select all occurrences at once with Ctrl+Cmd+G

Remove occurrences with ESC

Answer 5

The simple way I think is to select the text and go on pressing Alt + J for Linux and Ctrl + G for Mac until you reach the last match.

PyCharm blog

Answer 6

From source:

To add carets, do one of the following

• Press Shift+Alt and click the LEFT mouse button at the location of the caret.

• Double-click Ctrl and press up arrow or down arrow keys.

On OSX it seems to be enough to press down the LEFT-ALT and add new carets with mouse LEFT CLICK, or press down SHIFT+ALT and paint the cursors with mouse.