Sublime Text 2: How to paste lines into multiple cursors

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I need a capability to copy multi-lines and paste it into multiple cursors in sublime text 2.(on Mac OS X)

Here's my original text.

level1:
  default: Level 1
  short: Lvl 1
level2:
  default: Level 2
  short: Lvl 2
level3:


level4:


level5:

Basically, I just want to copy 'default' and 'short' under level1 into level3 and level4 each. The expected result should be as follows:

level1:
  default: Level 1
  short: Lvl 1
level2:
  default: Level 2
  short: Lvl 2
level3:
  default: Level 1
  short: Lvl 1    
level4:
  default: Level 1
  short: Lvl 1
level5:

However, it doesn't seem to work the way I want as I copy lines of level1's default and short, then place multiple cursors under level3 and level4 (cmd + left-mouse click for each), and then paste them using cmd+v.

What it does instead?, it's only copying each line into each cursor as below, which is not what I want. 

level1:
  default: Level 1
  short: Lvl 1
level2:
  default: Level 2
  short: Lvl 2
level3:
  default: Level 1

level4:
  short: Lvl 1

level5:

Any advice on how to achieve the copy-paste result that I want?

Best Answer

At first, copy the wanted lines.

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Extend the file by two newlines at the end. Then, select the ":" after level3 and press CMD+d a few times to select the following colons.

First Step

Next, press the down arrow one time, then hold shift and press the down arrow again.

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Paste.

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