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That's right. Implementing multiple cursors in X-Windows, Windows or MacOS is anything but "prettymuch trivial". You basically have to re-implement parts of the window system and user interface toolkit yourself, and throw away or replace all the (extremely non-trivial) services and features of all the code you're replacing (including extremely tricky bits like input methods, internationalization, drag and drop, cut and paste, etc).



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