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I had griped on one of the mailing developer lists a couple of weeks ago that the recently added “Loop Cut” tool wasn’t in fact a loop cut at all. It was an edge loop selector. After you made the selection, you could of course use the Subdivide tool to make the cut. That was functional, but not nearly as elegant as the tool in Blender 2.49 (and previous). You would hit Ctrl-R, select your cut interactively, use the mousewheel to determine the number of cuts, possibly slide a single cut along the edge, then LMB click to actually finish the cut.

A couple of days after my gripe, Joe Eager added a more convenient Loop Cut tool that was activated with Ctrl-R. You could make a single cut.

I was working on the modeling basics chapter of the new book and really missed multi-cut. I figured it was already there for Subdivide, so how hard could it be? Turned out it wasn’t too hard. Multi-cut is now back in the Ctrl-R loop cut tool. If I have some more time, I’m going to see if I can do the edge slide too, although Joe indicated in his notes on this that it wasn’t possible with the current structure. As he’s about 100x the programmer I am (i.e. a real coder, not a hacky dilettante), I’m probably chasing the wrong cat, but I suppose it’s worth at least a look.