select next occurence of a word when using multiple cursors - visual-studio-code

Question

From the bellow screen shot you can see that I have placed multi-cursor one multiple lines.
I want the next occurrence of " to be selected on each line for each cursor. I know I can use ctrld for selecting next occurrence. But it only works for single cursor. What is the solution for multi-cursor?

Answer 1

with the extension Select By v0.11.0 and the command moveby.regex you can move multiple cursors based on a regular expression.
The regular expression can be fixed in the keybinding or asked from the user.
For fixed regex use a key binding like:
{
"key": "ctrl+f6", // or any other key combo
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"command": "moveby.regex",
"args": {
"regex": "\"",
"properties": ["next", "start"]
}
}
To ask for a regex use a key binding like:
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+f6", // or any other key combo
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"command": "moveby.regex",
"args": {
"ask": true,
"properties": ["next", "start"]
}
}
In the Inputbox enter the regular expression in a non-escaped form. In a JSON files you need to escape the " and \ characters.
In a later version the command selectby.regex will also support multi cursor.