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I tried looking up this questions but they were for the entire line.
My question is for example let url = "https://robohash.org/hello.png?set=set4";
here, is there any shortcut to select only the url or basically anything enclosed between "". Is it possible?
I just found a magical shortcut :)
For expand selection we can use shift + alt + ->
I had installed a stupid plugin before!
AFAIK this is not possible without an extension. You can download Quick and Simple Text Selection, the use ctrl+k " shortcut.
If you're familiar with Vim, you can use the vim extension, and then click v i " to enter visual mode, and choose everything between double quotes
For the sake of completeness, vscode also includes a smart select option, which has the keyboard shortcuts ctrl+shift+right_arrow and ctrl+shift+left_arrow (The shortcut has been changed to alt+shift+left/right_arrow). The problem with it is it doesn't specifically select everything between double quotes, and in the case of a URL, it doesn't simply work as intended. If it's only a simple string, it would also select the double quotes in addition to the string between them
There is actually another expansion called expand_region with the ability to
expand_region and undo_expand_region. The default keybindings are ctrl+w / shift+ctrl+w .
I find this one to be more convenient.
It stops before and after " and it will work for the url-fetch scenario.
What it doesn't do is to stop at a complete line (with and without indentation) which smart select seems to do. There are probably more differences that I don't know about.
Update: You have to press multiple times to expand further. For the example line in the original post this means 3 times.
ctrl+w, ctrl+w, ctrl+w
let url = "https://robo[cursor-here]hash.org/hello.png?set=set4";
1. https://robohash.org/hello.png?set
2. https://robohash.org/hello.png?set=set4
3. "https://robohash.org/hello.png?set=set4"
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to emacs. I recently installed Doom emacs and I've been really enjoying it. One thing that I'm struggling to find out is how do I quickly access/select on of the actions that are given to me by lsp-mode (I assume it's lsp-ui). I've attached a screenshot - the actions that I'm referring to are on the right-hand side.
Quick side questions:
When I jump to definition (spc-c-d) how do I jump back? Do I just kill the buffer?
Using ivy, how can I easily go through the list? - using control-n is a bit hard
You can come back to the previous buffer using CTRL+O
You can go down or up in the list using CTRL+j or CTRL+k
There are some tricks to get the answer:
first, try to find the action or function you know.
example 1. "M-x action-you-want-to-know"
example 2. "C-h k then-type-the-shortcut-key-you-want-to-search"
second, try to get the answer from project issues
The answer to your question:
1: press "C-o" jump backward
2: Try to input multi keywords in your search field to narrow down the search scope, just like increment search.
If you get too many lines after ivy-search some keyword you input, that means you donot know what you want to search, right?
I am using VSCode on a Mac.
Does anyone know how to select the entire line that the cursor is on? I know about Command+I, but that only selects what appears to be the whole line, which is not always the whole line if I have word wrap enabled.
I am looking for something like Sublime Text's "Expand Selection to Line" command.
All you need to do is put the cursor anywhere on the line, do not make any selection at all and then do the desired command (Cut, copy, or paste).
When no text selected, VS Code will automatically select the entire line.
just triple click the end of the line it will select the entire line
Triple click at any point on the line
Click once on number of the line
Press Command + L
An alternative to what people have posted is, when your cursor is at the start/end of the line, you can hit shift + end/home respectively.
I find this useful for wrapping a line in curly braces/quotes/etc. whereas the other answers include spaces in the select so whatever you're wrapping it in will be wrapped around that whitespace.
Install the MetaGo extension and use the "metaGo: selectLineDown" command, which will come installed already overriding the "expandLineSelection" command.
This extension has many additional commands that you'll likely find useful as well, including moving up/down over code blocks, centering the active line, and going to any character on the screen.
Now, when I press Command+I, the whole line is selected. I am guessing this was caused by an update to VS Code, but I am not sure.
Ctrl + L on Windows or Command + L on Mac to select the whole line in VS Code.
You can use your mouse to select the whole line by triple-clicking on the line but the better way is to click on the line number to select the whole line or multiple lines.
Tripple click at any point on the line
In case you're wondering why Cmd+L is not working, there might be a chance that there are duplicate shortcuts. You can find out by opening Keyboard Shortcuts in VSC and remove the one that's not needed.
I know its old but for anyone seeking, you can press Alt + arrow up/down to duplicate your cursor to other lines and then without selecting anything copy and paste multiple lines.
Let's suppose I have the following code:
But I change my mind and I don't want to call it plan anymore. I want to call it schedule. So, because VS Code is so amazing and I'm so lazy, I press Ctrl + D hoping for VS Code to change the name respecting the case. But suddenly:
Is it there any way to tell VS Code to respect the case?
With 1.37 (July 2019), it is possible through a find/replace (which now can replace by preserving case).
Issue 9798 has been implemented by PR 78003.
issue 78397 has been implemented by PR 79111 (1.38 only) for search/replace.
From 1.37 release notes:
You can now preserve case when doing replacement in the editor's Find widget. The feature is turned on when the Preserve Case option (AB button) is turned on in the editor's Replace input box.
Currently VS Code only supports preserve Full Upper Case, Full Lower Case, and Title Case.
Shortcuts are Alt + C for case sensitive. There is a little toolbar appears at the top-right corner of the VS Code, to let you toggle search options.
or you just Ctrl + F to toggle replace mode.
The v1.38 release in early September will extend the Preserve Case functionality to replacements while searching across files using the Search Panel. See add Preserve Case to Searches (all files).
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There is also a new case preservation mode for hyphen-separated words.
v1.39 is adding preserve case for _underscore separated words. Like foo_bar.
See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/79660
If you want to achieve this without using the find/replace menu, there is an extension which solves your problem: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Cardinal90.multi-cursor-case-preserve
As far as I know it isn't, a workaround could be using the buttons that appear on top right after you press Ctrl + D. The second lets you select occurrences respecting the case, this way you could replace the text in 2 steps, first Plan and then plan.
So select the code bit, ctrl+h to open replace, edit find and replace, turn off match case in find, turn on preserve case within replace, Alt+L to find all occurences in selection, and Ctrl+Alt+Enter to execute.
9/10 cases you'll get it wrong, doesn't worth the effort. Just use ctr+d, then do the same for the uppercase.
Personally looking forward for a simpler/safer solution through the ctrl+d way. :)
Are there any trick or extension to select all instances of selected word in visual studio code, to facilitate editing or deleting those instances without search and replace, like ِAlt+F3 in sublime text
Select All Occurrences of Find Match editor.action.selectHighlights.
Ctrl+Shift+L
Cmd+Shift+L or Cmd+Ctrl+G on Mac
According to Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code there's:
Ctrl+Shift+L to select all occurrences of current selection
and
Ctrl+F2 to select all occurrences of current word
You can view the currently active keyboard shortcuts in VS Code in the Command Palette (View -> Command Palette) or in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor (File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts).
What if you want to select just a few?
No problem, first:
Ctrl+F find the letters by typing them
ESC to quit searching
(you need to do this even when using
Ctrl+Shift+L
to select all occurences)
OR
just select those letters with your mouse or keyboard
(Shift+arrows)
Now that the mouse cursor is blinking on your first selection,
using a few more Key Bindings (thanks for the ref j08691)
you may:
Ctrl+D select (add) the next occurrence
Ctrl+K+Ctrl+D skip
the current/latest occurrence and add the next occurrence
Ctrl+U undo the latest cursor operation
on Mac:
select all matches: Command + Shift + L
but if you just want to select another match up coming next: Command + D
If you want to do one by one then this is what you can do:
Select a word
Press ctrl + d (in windows).
This will help to select words one by one.
On Ubuntu:
Ctrl + F2 will select all occurrences immediately.
Ctrl + D will select occurrences one by one.
In my MacOS case for some reason Cmd+Shift+L is not working while pressing the short cut on the keyboard (although it work just fine while clicking on this option in menu: Selection -> Select All Occurences). So for me pressing Cmd+FN+F2 did the trick (FN is for enabling "F2" obviously).
Btw, if you forget this shortcut just do right-click on the selection and see "Change All Occurrences" option
Ctrl+Shift+L to select all occurrences of current selection.
Several options have been listed, but a couple are missing. Its possible to use the rename and refactoring tools, for not just selecting all, but making specific changes, after everything has been selected. I am going to try and bundle all answers I feel are relevant together, and add two more that, not only get the job done, but are really great tools for making single changes over multiple occurrences of the same code.
1. Select All Matches
To use multiple cursors to select all matches, you can use 1 of 2 keybindings. Both keybindings preform the same functionality, so in other words, 2 keybindings, 1 vscode command. The keybindings are as follows.
1. CTRL + F2
2. CTRL + SHIFT + L
Default Keybinding
{
"key": "ctrl+f2",
"command": "editor.action.changeAll",
"when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
}
// You can view/customize VSCode keybindings by pressing F1 and typing Keybindings
2. Select Next Match
You can Select Next Match by using the keybinding below. This is good for selecting all occurrences within a specific vicinity.
CTRL + D
Default Keybinding
{
"key": "ctrl+d",
"command": "editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch",
"when": "editorFocus"
}
SIDE NOTE
If you press the keybinding CTRL + K before pressing CTRL + D, instead of selecting the next instance, it will move you to the next instance, and target it with your cursor.
Default Keybinding
3. Rename
This one hasn't been mentioned yet, but this one is what you would except when doing a refactor in a traditional IDE, like Visual Studio 2022, or JetBrains: IntelliJ.
When you use this keybinding, it attempts to solve some of the problems that are incurred when using the other options listed above. The other options are overly greedy sometimes, and select parts of words that you didn't want to select, and if your not careful, you can delete quite a bit of code, resulting in messy situation. If you didn't notice that you screwed up right away, you end up saving, or working for a long while before having to reset everything, and you end up loosing a lot of work & time.
F2 attempts to solve this problem by implementing logic under the hood (IDK if its an algorithm or what it is) but it feels very much like refactor in Visual Studio. It only selects specific cases that you would want to target. So if a varable is named foo, is won't select foo from a var named fooFoo. It also won't select foo from a comment.
F2
{
"key": "f2",
"command": "editor.action.rename",
"when": "editorHasRenameProvider && editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
}
4. Find
This one I will keep short and sweet, but find will iterate through ever occurrence of a pattern that you type into the editor-widget.
Press CTRL + F then type what you want to select. Keep pressing ENTER until you find it.
5. The Best For Last
There is not one method for selecting all occurrences that is the best every time, that's why there are several different methods for doing it, however, there are some methods that are generally more useful than others. This feature, as far as I know, is unique to VS Code, and I use it all the time when working with large JSON files, and Large Code Bases (like an Open Source PR).
VS Code has its own search editor, its a special editor. You can open the search editor by pressing on the Magnifying Glass Icon on the Activity-bar. Type into the search editors side bar text-input what it is you want to select, then press ENTER. It will return all the results in the sidebar. You can use the lower text input, to replace all of the results with what ever you like. You can also click OPEN IN THE EDITOR (it looks like a link) and it will reproduce everything you searched for in a new document, that is opened to the side. From there you can manipulate it, and add it back to the document. I've already written enough for one answer, so I am not going to go to deep into every thing it can do, but this not only selects everything, it also extracts it, replaces it, lets you nit-pick exactly what it means to select "all" of a specific occurrence. It's a great tool for making a single change in a recursive fashion.
This seems an old question, but it worth an answer.
There is - besides the accepted answer - a fancy shortcut to do this, just select the desired word and press Ctrl + D as many times as desired, each press will select an exact occurrence in the editor, after all occurrences are selected, just type the replacement and all the occurrences will be replaced as you type.
Ctrl + F2 works for me in Windows 10.
Ctrl + Shift + L starts performance logging
I needed to extract all the matched search lines (using regex) in a file
Ctrl+F Open find. Select regex icon and enter search pattern
(optional) Enable select highlights by opening settings and search for selectHighlights (Ctrl+,, selectHighlights)
Ctrl+L Select all search items
Ctrl+C Copy all selected lines
Ctrl+N Open new document
Ctrl+V Paste all searched lines.
I had another application, called Loom, running in the background on my Mac which was taking over my keyboard bindings.
Cmd+Shift+L
It was just random that I figured out it was preventing the keyboard bindings from reaching VS Code. I tried to turn off applications that I had open one by one. Not the best approach, but it worked.
Additionally to unselect use
Cntrl + U