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    FWIW I use both. In fact, iedit provides iedit-switch-to-mc-mode so you can select something with iedit and then switch to multiple-cursors if you want. I find iedit is what I want most of the time, but mc is very useful for certain situations. Commented Feb 15, 2019 at 19:21
  • Wrong! Iedit does both things flawlessly out of the box in Spacemacs. Commented Feb 3, 2021 at 5:34
  • Oh, so it's a complete replacement for multiple-cursors now, @xged? I'm surprised it evolved in that direction. Commented Feb 3, 2021 at 18:49
  • @Omar The second thing was there before you wrote your answer (idk about the thirst) Commented Feb 4, 2021 at 5:23
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    That's odd, I just installed iedit now to test and it seems you can't, for example, use C-M-u to move outside of the sexp containing each match and do something to it. So it definitely cannot substitute for all uses of multiple-cursors. If your marked regions in iedit contain two words, you can certainly tranpose them in all region at the same time, but you can't for example, transpose the last word in each region with the first word after the region. So it doesn't really have all the capabilities of multiple cursors. Commented Feb 4, 2021 at 6:57