Selection (user interface)

The user typically adds items to the list manually, although the computer may create a selection automatically.

The technique also appears in data wrangling tools, allowing the user to make the same changes to several records of the same kind in a table.

Some applications also enable text to be typed in multiple lines at once using this method as a limited form of simultaneous editing.

[2] The feature is known by different names in different applications: The Lapis text editor,[9][10] Mozilla's Firefox developer tools,[11] and the multi edit[12] plugin for gedit are examples of the simultaneous editing technique that work on discontinuous regions through direct manipulation.

The Lapis editor can also create an automatic multiple selection based on an example item.