> That is, many of the normal movement operations (such as search) have the side effect of leaving behind extra cursors, like little breadcrumbs, that take an extra keystroke to dismiss.
Uh, no? Unless you’re talking about undo which can indeed be annoying in that way when undoing a multicursor edit.
In particular, search with / and its modified versions does not change the number of cursors, and neither does the next occurrence command, n. You have to explicitly say N (that is <s-n>) to add a new selection at the next occurrence rather than move the current one there, or use s and friends which are specifically geared to act on each match within the current selection(s).
Are you sure you aren’t pressing something you shouldn’t be out of (Vim) habit?
Uh, no? Unless you’re talking about undo which can indeed be annoying in that way when undoing a multicursor edit.
In particular, search with / and its modified versions does not change the number of cursors, and neither does the next occurrence command, n. You have to explicitly say N (that is <s-n>) to add a new selection at the next occurrence rather than move the current one there, or use s and friends which are specifically geared to act on each match within the current selection(s).
Are you sure you aren’t pressing something you shouldn’t be out of (Vim) habit?