Question: How do I quickly put a cursor on 2 or more lines?

[James-Firth]

I checked the docs and tutor but nothing stood out to me for this beyond memorizing a regex (maybe)

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Let's say I have the text

#################
# my cool ascii
# art
########################

and I want to trim both lines so I can align it to the text, so naturally I want to start deleting on both and then
only the bottom.

How do I get multiple cursors to show up either like of the examples below, quickly and easily?
My first thought was I could select and jump but that didn't work. And most examples shown involve adjacent lines. I'm wondering about non-adjacent lines without futzing with regexes.

#################█ 
# my cool ascii
# art
########################█ 

or

█#################
# my cool ascii
# art
█######################## 

Thanks in advance and if this isn't a feature, maybe it should be? (or not!)

[grv07]

Pls open an issue for that one, I don't think it is supported but Helix.
It would be nice if you add any example editor that support this.

[James-Firth]

A reply the day after you gave an answer for this particular example. It would be cool to be able to jump to arbitrary, non-adjacent lines with text in between, but I'll have to see if that particular need pops up before I want to open an issue.

[the-mikedavis]

If your cursor is on the last # on the first line and you use C it will create a cursor on the next suitable line which will be the last line. Then you can use gl to move both cursors to the ends of their lines

[James-Firth]

Ah! I hadn't thought about the fact it would notice no characters in the columns below until the "next suitable line" like that, interesting!

I'll have to think/see if I come across a usecase where there's a need to put cursors on arbitrary lines (that have text or whitespace in the way where this wouldn't work). If I think of one maybe I'll open an issue.

Thanks I'll mark this as an answer since it does solve that initial problem!