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== Simultaneous editing ==

[[Simultaneous editing]] is a technique in [[End-user development]] research to edit all items in a multiple selection. It allows the user to manipulate all the selected items at once through [[direct manipulation]]. The [[Lapis (text editor)|Lapis text editor]],<ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/papers/chi02/chi02.html LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure]</ref><ref>[http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/full_papers/miller/miller_html/usenix99.html Lightweight Structured Text Processing]</ref>, [[Sublime Text]] ''multiple selection'' feature,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sublime-text-2-crossplatform-code-editing/ |title=Features|publisher=makeuseof.com |accessdate=13 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/column_selection.html|title=Column selection}}</ref> and the ''multi edit''<ref>[http://blogs.gnome.org/jessevdk/2009/11/15/new-gedit-plugin-multi-edit/ New gedit plugin: multi edit], and a [http://www.icecrew.nl/files/gedit/multiedit.ogv demo video].</ref> plugin for [[gedit]] are examples of this technique. The Lapis editor can also create an automatic multiple selection based on an example item.

The term ''simultaneous editing'' is also used to describe [[collaborative editing]] in [[collaborative real-time editor]]s.