I find myself adding a single letter during edits. Is there any way to add a character and exit insert mode just like replacing r but not deleting the character in Vs code vim extension?
pressing i <character> <Esc> each and every time defeats the purpose of being productive.
I have also looked for mapping and tried but not sure how they work.
Any help is appreciated.
From normal mode, you can put yourself in insert mode, type a space, exit back to normal mode, then put yourself in replace mode. That way you find your cursor on a blank space in replace mode, where you can simply type the character you want to add.
Here's how to do it (replace "your-desired-mapping-here" by the mapping that you like, for example: M)
vscode vim plugin way: (add this to your settings.json)
"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
{
"before": ["<your-desired-mapping-here>"],
"after": ["i", " ", "<ESC>", "r"]
}
]
vim way: (add this to your .vimrc)
nnoremap <your-desired-mapping-here> i <esc>r
note: please notice the space after i in the vim way.
What keyboard shortcut lets you go to the start of a string? I need this for emails. When i use CTRL + back arrow it jumps to the dot and # sign, i have a block of strings with emails at the end, i want to select only the email by going to the end of the string but as some people have firstname.lastname#something.com and flastname#something.com the cursors dont line up when i use CTRL + back arrow.
I cant find any specific shortcuts which would help in this situation.
thanks!
You can use the extension Select By
You can use the:
forward - backward
surround
Add this to your settings:
"selectby.regexes": {
"email": {
"surround": "[-.a-zA-Z0-9]+#[-.a-zA-Z0-9]+"
}
}
You can call the select with a command or define a keybinding, see the doc page
There are no built-in commands that will do what you want. You will need an extension. I wrote such an extension: Jump and select.
With this setting (in your settings.json):
"jump-and-select.putCursorBackward": "afterCharacter" // default is beforeCharacter
and the default keybinding for jumping backward and selecting Shift+Alt+B it is easy to select everything from your cursor to some preceding character. Just trigger that keybinding and type the character to select backward to, in your case a Space. As you can see in the demo, it works with multiple or single cursors.
In Vim, you can press fx and Fx to move to the next and previous occurrence of x on the same line:
**fx** - jump to next occurrence of character x
**Fx** - jump to previous occurence of character x
source: https://vim.rtorr.com/
I don't wish to use a vim emulator in VS Code, I instead would like to bind Ctrl+f to forward search and Ctrl+b for backwards search.
How can I do that?
I just posted an extension (I'm pretty sure you can't do it without an extension) that does what you want: Jump and Select
It does a little more than you want in case other people would like the selection option. You can bind any keybinding to the commands you want. The following demo uses Alt+f for forward and Alt+b for backward.
Note that the key you want to go to is not displayed. And you don't have to hit Enter to trigger the move - it just goes there immediately. And it works with multiple cursors.
Also, I am not familiar with vim. If you go back to some designated previous character, should the cursor end up before or after that character? Right now it goes to that character (so the cursor is after it) but it is easy for me to make to change that behaviour in the extension. Just let me know.
In VSCode, "find next" is performed by Ctrl+G (Cmd in MacOS) and "find previous" by Ctrl+Shift+G.
You can edit the keyboard shortcuts by going to Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and looking for both "Find Next" and "Find Previous", and hovering over the keybinding to edit it to your preference.
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
I can't seem to find a way to select the beginning of a bracket and jump to the end of it through some key combination or something in VS Code. For example, in atom, this is done with Ctrl + m.
I know there is a way to jump to the beginning and end of a bracket or curlybraces with Cmd + Shift + \ but that does not work for tags. Any ideas?
It is possible to do, but either using Ctrl + Shift + P -> "Emmet: Go to Matching Pair" or by manually setting a shortcut for it (Ctrl + K Ctrl + S).
Unfortunately there is currently no support for it out of the box.
You can use Cmd + % to jump tags in VSCode if you add the following to your keybindings.json.
{
"key":"cmd+shift+5",
"command": "editor.emmet.action.matchTag"
}
Go to: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and click the underlined link to edit keybindings.json.
For those using VIM keys: you are already used to pressing % to jump to matching parens and tags. So, hopefully, Cmd + % will be close enough to your existing muscle memory to make this transition painless.
For those who are using Vim plugin and Mac, Leader+% is working well for me.
You can setup in your Vim json file setting.json by adding:
"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
{
"before": ["<leader>", "%"],
"commands": [
{
"command": "editor.emmet.action.matchTag"
}
]
}
]
PS. I mentioned Mac user because cmd+shift+5 is for capturing the screen in Mac.
You can jump to the matching bracket with Ctrl+Shift+\
For more reference, you can refer: Visual Studio Code Navigation
I think you are asking about Breadcrumb Keyboard Navigation
In this case you can simply press Ctrl+Shift+. to go to elements before or after the current element.
There is no support for this out of the box. Though if you are willing to use extensions, there is: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vincaslt.highlight-matching-tag which among other things, gives you ability to use command: Jump to matching tag which you can bind to a key.