Global Reveal & Global Multicursor

These two features let you act on an entire quickfix list — populated by a global selection mode — across all matching files simultaneously.

Workflow

Step 1: Activate a global selection mode

Global selection modes search across all files in your project and populate the quickfix list. For example:

• space f — search for the current selection across all files
• space s — show all LSP Diagnostic errors globally

See Secondary Selection Modes for the full list.

Step 2: Apply Global Reveal or Global Multicursor

Once the quickfix list is populated:

Action	Key	Effect
Global Reveal	space u	Splits the viewport to show all quickfix entries simultaneously
Global Multicursor	b space j	Places a cursor at every quickfix entry, across all files

Global Reveal (space u)

Toggles a split-viewport view of every entry in the quickfix list — across files — giving you a bird's-eye overview without scrolling.

This is useful for:

• Reviewing all LSP diagnostic errors across your project at a glance
• Auditing all references to a symbol spread across files before editing
• Inspecting all search matches project-wide before committing to a bulk change

Global Multicursor (b space j)

Places a cursor at every entry in the quickfix list, across all matching files. From there, any edit you make is applied at every cursor simultaneously.

This is useful for, but not limited to:

• Renaming a term across all files (as a complement to LSP rename)
• Deleting or replacing all occurrences of a pattern project-wide
• Applying the same syntactical transformation to every LSP diagnostic error

Supported multicursor actions

Not all multicursor actions are available in Global Multicursor mode. The following are supported:

Action	Description
Cycle cursor	Switch the primary cursor between files
Delete cursor	Remove the primary cursor; if it was the only cursor in its file, and it's not the only file left, that file is removed from view
Keep matching selections	Filter down to cursors whose selection content matches a pattern
Remove matching selections	Filter out cursors whose selection content matches a pattern
Keep primary cursor only	Collapse back to a single cursor, deactivating Global Multicursor

Notably, adding cursors via movements and splitting selections by selection mode change are not supported.

Local equivalents

The same keys work identically for local selection modes, scoped to the current file only.

Scope	space u effect	b space j effect
Local selection mode	Reveal matches in current file	Cursors at all matches in current file
Global selection mode	Reveal matches across all files	Cursors at all matches across all files

The only difference is the scope of the selection mode activated in Step 1.