Rename Variables with Multiple Selection in Sublime Text

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hey there this is Daniel with another productivity tip for all of you python developers out there so I've got a python file opened here in my Sublime Text Editor and um what I want to do is I want to do a little refactoring where I rename a variable in this uh function here it's called run all and uh the the variable that I want to rename is the uh delay seconds keyword argument because you know for some reason I feel like it's not it's not a fitting name um and let's say we want to change that name inside that function and we want to kind of do it in the quickest way possible so the way I would approach that is I would double click the first occurrence in this case here in the uh the function definition and you can already see that Sublime Text um highlighted the other occurrences off the lay seconds um here in the text or within that function so what I can do now is um I can use the multiple edits command or multiple selection command to uh actually change all of these occurrences of delay seconds at the same time and the way I'm going to do this is by hitting command d a couple of times and you'll know how many times to hit command D because you already got that uh little um little outline here so in this case you know I hit command D two times selected all of these occurrences and I'm just going to go delay and uh click somewhere and I'm done I renamed all of these occurrences um in one go and uh that was really easy to do and I can also undo all of them in one go cool so I hope this saved you some time and made you a little bit quicker in your day-to-day work uh stay tuned for more stuff like that feel free to subscribe and I'll talk to you soon