Sublime Text: Pressing Esc from multiple selections -- put cursor at last selection? - sublimetext2

Question

With Sublime Text, after a multi selection is with from CMD+D, I usually alter the text, then want to escape the selections and have the cursor at where the last selection was.
Some feature that are close:
CMD+U will reselect selections
CMD+G will skip to the next occurence
CMD+Shift+G will skip backwards to the previous occurence
Are there any keyboard shortcuts that will do what I want, similar to Esc but forward, rather than backward?

Answer 1

You can create a very simple plugin to do this, and then bind a key to it:
From the Tools menu, select Developer -> New Plugin...
Paste in the following:
import sublime, sublime_plugin
class SingleSelectionLastCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
last = self.view.sel()[-1]
self.view.sel().clear()
self.view.sel().add(last)
self.view.show(last)
Save it in the folder it recommends, name the file something like single_selection_keep_last_cursor.py
Open Preferences -> Key Bindings - User
Type/Paste in something similar to the following:
{ "keys": ["escape"], "command": "single_selection_last", "context":
[
{ "key": "num_selections", "operator": "not_equal", "operand": 1 }
]
}
Save it
This example creates a new plugin with a command called single_selection_last, and then binds the Esc key to it when there is more than one selection. This therefore overrides the default Esc behavior of keeping the first selection.
The keybindings file needs to be a valid JSON array, so if it is empty you will need to wrap the example above in square brackets [...] for it to work.
If you wish to use a different key, you just need to replace escape with the key combination you want. See Preferences -> Key Bindings - Default for examples.