Is it possible to enable multiline editing like in Sublime Text?
For example, press Ctrl to place additional cursor carets and being able to write/delete on multiple places in the document at one time.
On Windows, you hold Ctrl+Alt while pressing the up ↑ or down ↓ arrow keys to add cursors.
Mac: ⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+↑/↓
Linux: Shift+Alt+↑/↓
Note that third-party software may interfere with these shortcuts, preventing them from working as intended (particularly Intel's HD Graphics software on Windows; see comments for more details).
If you experience this issue, you can either disable the Intel/other software hotkeys, or modify the VS Code shortcuts (described below).
Press Esc to reset to a single cursor.
Or, as Isidor Nikolic points out, you can hold Alt and left click to place cursors arbitrarily.
You can view and edit keyboard shortcuts via:
File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts
Documentation:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings
Official VS Code Keyboard shortcut cheat sheets:
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-macos.pdf
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-linux.pdf
Solved using just two steps!
Ctrl + F
Alt + Enter
It's equal to Sublime Text's Alt + F3.
Note: For macOS, ⌘ + F followed by ⌥ + Enter is equivalent to Sublime Text's ⌃ + ⌘ + G.
You can just Alt + click for additional cursors. And as already mentioned, Ctrl + Alt + ↑ or ↓.
Box Selecting
Windows: shift + alt + Mouse Left Button
macOS: shift + option + Click
This is contrary to what is mentioned in an answer to Does Visual Studio Code have box select/multi-line edit?.
I wanted to select multiple lines and hit "something" to have a cursor for each select lines (similar to Ctrl + Shift + L in Sublime Text). This action in Visual Studio Code is called "Add Cursors to Line Ends".
This was tested in Visual Studio Code 1.51.1 and works on both Windows and Mac.
Here is the way:
Select the lines you want to have multiple cursors.
Simply hit Alt + Shift-I.
You now have one cursor per selected line.
Use Ctrl + D to use multi word edit of same words in Windows and Linux.
Use CMD + D for Mac.
In the latest release of Visual Studio Code, you can now drag the cursor while holding Option (Alt on Windows) to select the same column on multiple rows.
To enable this, make sure you change your editor.multiCursorModifier to look like this:
"editor.multiCursorModifier": "ctrlCmd"
From the Visual Studio Code release notes 1.32.0:
In the following video, the selection begins as a regular selection and then Alt is pressed and held until the mouse button is released:
From the version 1.13 (May 2017) you can finally change the default modifier key for creating multiple cursors (add to settings):
"editor.multiCursorModifier": "ctrlCmd"
P.S.: The modifier "follow link" from this moment will be Alt.
Step 1:
Select the word to be replaced.
Step 2:
Use Ctrl + F to select its multiple occurrences.
Step 3:
Use Alt + Enter to set cursor at all the found occurrences.
Step 4:
Just start typing the new word.
Alternatively on Mac:
⌥ Opt + Click to set cursor on the click location.
On Mac it is:
Option + Command while pressing the up ↑ or down ↓ arrow keys.
I am using the vscodevim extension, so I'm not sure if this is a common problem. But, I was having the issue where Ctrl + Alt + UpArrow flipped my screen upside down.
Looking at the Visual Studio Code Basics (I don't know if they changed this in a recent update), it says to use:
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + (Up/down)
Working solution for me was first selecting the required text to edit and then using CTRL + F2 to select all matching data in the page.
You may also use CTRL+Shift+L as suggested by #lesterCovax
Please Note: The above solution uses the inherent ability of VSCode editor to select similar text across the entire page, and therefore, be careful.
For me the above solution of Ctrl + ALT + Arrowkeys did not work as it caused the screen to change its display orientation against selecting the lines in VSCode.
(Windows 10 pro x64) Here have some ways!
Alt + click
Alt + Ctrl + up/down
Keybindings: Ctrl + click (??? it doesn't work!)
To add multiple cursors at any text position
This is done by using Ctrl+Click. Firstly you have to enable Multiple-Cursor Modifier. Simply type this option on Command Palette by Ctrl+Shift+P to enable it.
To remove a cursor form multiple text position.
Do Ctrl+Click on the cursor.
As of April 2018 (version 1.23) you can now also use the middle mouse button to multiline select / box select.
version 1.43 (February 2020)
You can now toggle column selection mode, which changes mouse gestures and arrow keys, via:
Menu Bar > Selection > Column Selection Mode
Ctrl+Shift+P (Show All Commands) > Toggle Column Selection Mode
Bind your key for command "editor.action.toggleColumnSelection"
Note: There is a "Column Selection" panel in the status bar after activation, which you can press to disable it again.
According to VS Code 1.55.2 version(2021) under User > Commonly Used section there is an option as Multi Cursor Modifier. See below image.
for multi cursor default key is alt if you want it can change to Ctrl.
Moreover, for suitable places, you can hold the Middle Mouse button and move to down.
In Windows, the below combinations work for me:
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + down arrow
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + up arrow
In addition to all of the answers, there is one more way. Select the lines you want and then press:
Windows: Shift + Alt + i
Mac: shift + option + i
This puts a cursor in every row in the selection.
In Visual Studio Code just press Alt and place your cursor to the edit place(where you want to edit) and right click to select.
(NO MOUSE) For macOS, I found this to be very quick!
CMD + f To search the (word) you want to change.
Option + Enter To select all word you search for.
Just update the first word and it will update all the selected.
I think it depends on your Visual Studio Code version.
Mine is Linux version Visual Studio Code 1.7.2.
{ "key": "ctrl+shift+up", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAbove",
"when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+up", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAbove",
"when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "ctrl+shift+down", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorBelow",
"when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+down", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorBelow",
"when": "editorTextFocus" }
The point is the shortcuts are not same in all machines, so you should check your configuration. Go to menu:
Menu File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts
Search for editor.action.insertCursorAbove and editor.action.insertCursorBelow and see your current configurations. You may change them if they conflict with operating system's shortcut keys.
If you're using Linux, there's a possibility of a conflict with Alt + click, which is the default for "moving a window".
You can go to menu Settings → Window Behavior → Window Behavior → Actions tab
Just remove Alt + left (hold) and it will work.
This is the best way, because you don't need to hold two + keys to do such a simple task.
I am using the latest version of VS code i.e., 1.46.1 (May 2020) in Windows 10. Just press Alt+mouse left click on the lines you want to select. This will let you select multiple lines at once and let you edit them. Also Press Esc to exit from it.
This is really helpful if you're coming from sublime text.
Just Opt + click works for me on Mac
My settings: Windows 8.1 64 bits, Visual Studio Code version 1.33.1.
Problem: Conflict with keyboard shortcuts of Intel HD Graphics 4000
I had a problem when I was using the default shortcuts of the Visual Studio Code (Ctrl + Alt + UP, Ctrl + Alt + DOWN). In my case, these commands were turning my screen in 0º and 180º respectively. It's happening, because there is the Graphic Intel application installed on my computer. Then, I just disable the shortcuts of this application.
Here is an tutorial to help someone.
I am using the Sublime Text keymap and the keybinding provided by the top answer did not seem to work :( Could be some conflicts between Visual Studio Code and sublime keymaps.
The keybinding recommended by #Han works for me (much appreciated!):
Enter multiline cursor mode with Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down
Exit with Esc
(Sidenote) Below is a small example of using Emmet together with the multiline cursor (enabled and disabled with these key bindings listed above):
On windows, you can create additional cursor on the next/previous lines by pressing:
Ctrl + Alt + Shift +Down/Up
Missing the Shift will flip your screen.
Creating additional cursors will allow you to edit multiple lines at once.
Well, I used the Alt key to select the lines where I wanted to edit, and that's it.
Alternatively, we can use the Ctrl + Alt + UP/DOWN arrow if the things to be edited are above or below.
The solution from #maxime of using SHIFT + ALT + i worked for me, when I needed to quickly edit ~20k lines in a file. Most of the other keyboard shortcuts mentioned are only useful for a limited number of line. SHIFT selecting the area you want to column edit, then pressing SHIFT + ALT + i is the most efficient way to handle this.
What I accidentally discovered though, (and hasn't been mentioned here yet) is that there is a limit of 10k lines in "cursor edit mode" (there's an open Github feature request to increase it). This means that for extremely large files, it may be better to script your edits, rather than doing it manually.
For those like #specimen that had to use shortcuts like CTRL + SHIFT + L (default binding is Select all occurrences of current selection) to accomplish this, you should check that you don't have a keymap extension installed. You can check by searching for #recommended:keymaps in the extensions pane, going to File > Preferences > Keymaps (CTRL+K CTRL+M).
The default [Windows] keymap can be found in PDF form HERE, or you can go to File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts to find/modify the current bindings. There is also more in-depth key bindings documentation HERE.
Related
How to select the current word, that is where the caret is at.
Note: I am looking for the shortcut for Visual Studio Code(VS Code), the text editor, and not Visual Studio IDE.
On Mac OS: Cmd+D
On Windows & Linux: Ctrl+D
Above solved the purpose for me.
But ⌘D is defined as "editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch", so if you press it more than once, it will try to search and select same word in the file which then can be used to do "multi word editing".
You are looking for Shrink/Expand Selection.
Trigger it with Shift+ Alt+Left and Shift + Alt+Right
Update:
This is now called Smart select API.
This feature uses semantic knowledge to intelligently expand selections for expressions, types, statements, classes, and imports.
It is Ctrl + D that works for me in latest Visual Studio Code on Windows.
Go to File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts, you will find this:
If you want to ctrl+w to behave the same as in Idea just go keyboard settings
Search for Expand selection. Set new shortcut cmd+w or ctrl+w depending on your OS.
Also re-bind other commands that use ctrl+w to use another shortcut that you want, for example cmd+f4
You can edit keybindings.json to avoid using UI.
Shift + Alt+Right Arrow if the word is in camelCase then you will have to click Right Arrow again to select the whole camelCase. Every time you press Right Arrow again while still holding Shift + Alt down you will select a further part of the code.
so:
first the word.
then if it's part of a camelCase then the camelCase.
then if it is in a string the whole string.
... (many other posibilities)
the whole line.
everything inside the parentheses code block
the whole file
at any given time you can go back to the last selection by clicking Left Arrow instead of Right Arrow
I don't know about CTRL + w in the old Visual Studio Code but in the JetBrains IDE's this is the equivalent to CTRL + w by holding down CTRL and clicking w to select more and holding down CTRL + Shift and clicking w to unselect.
Another possibility which helps to avoid selecting only one word in camelCase is CTRL + d this will just select the whole camelCase. This will however have the side-effect of also changing the current "find" criteria.
thanks Chandan Nayak for this extra shortcut.
An unpopular opinion: you can now have Resharper keybindings, if you come from Jetbrain's camp.
The Ctrl+W expansion grow and shrinks is different from expansion selection.
On "File/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts" I deleted the shortcut "Ctrl + W" to close the current tab action, because for this "Ctrl+F4" works for me.
Update (14 days later): Yesterday I installed VSCode 1.34.0 - I think since then the functionality is "Ctrl + D". I was very suprised.
For any editor, you can use the below shortcuts. These shortcuts work for every text area also.
Ctrl + Shift + LeftArrow/RightArrow - this will select text word by word
Shift + UpArrow/DownArrow - this will select text line by line
Ctrl + BackSpace - this will delete text word by word
Additional
in intellijIdea
Ctrl + w - use for the select current word, after giving second Ctrl + W it will select the second word also. Like that you can select the whole line.
Ctrl + d - you can duplicate current line.
I cannot find a way to comment and uncomment multiple lines of code in Visual Studio Code.
Is it possible to comment and uncomment multiple lines in Visual Studio Code using some shortcut? If yes, how to do it?
Windows: Shift+Alt+A
Linux: Shift+Ctrl+A
Here you can find all the keyboard shortcuts:
Windows VSCode Shortcuts
Linux VSCode Shortcuts
PS: I prefer Ctrl+Shift+/ for toggling block comments because Ctrl+/ is shortcut for toggling line comments so it's naturally easier to remember. To do so, just click on the settings icon in the bottom left of the screen and click 'Keyboard Shortcuts' and find "toggle block...". Then click and enter your desired combination.
First, select the lines you want to comment/uncomment (CTRL+L is convenient to select a few lines)
Then:
To toggle line comments, execute editor.action.commentLine (CTRL+/ on Windows)
or
To add line comments, execute editor.action.addCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+C)
To remove line comments, execute editor.action.removeCommentLine (CTRL+K CTRL+U)
or
To toggle a block comment, execute editor.action.blockComment (SHIFT-ALT-A)
See the official doc : Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
How to comment out multiline / single line in VS Code:
MacOS:
Shift + Option + A:
/* multiline
comment */
CMD + /:
// single line comment
Windows:
Shift + Alt + A:
/* multiline
comment */
CTRL + /:
// single line comment
How to remap / change these shortcuts?
Windows: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
MacOS: Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
You can search through the list both by keybindings (key names) and command names.
Read: How to set shortcuts from another text editor (Sublime, Atom etc)?
Official docs: Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
The keyboard shortcut to comment multiple in Windows is shift+alt+A.
In my case, Ubuntu, the shortcut is ctrl+shift+A.
You can see all available keybindings on the official documentation.
Here's the relevant bit for osx:
Key Command
⌘K ⌘C Add Line Comment
⌘K ⌘U Remove Line Comment
⌘/ Toggle Line Comment
⇧⌥A Toggle Block Comment
You will need to select the lines you want to comment first, then execute above shortcut, i.e. ⌘/ on osx Ctrl/ on Windows.
In MacOS comment out multi-lines in Visual Studio Code by keyboard shortcut:
Option + Shift + A
/*
...
...
*/
Or,
Select all lines and then press CTRL + /
Try option 1 first. If it doesn't work for you then try option 2 which is the actual shortcut for VS Code:
Option 1. Alt / Option + Shift + A
Option 2. While the text is selected hit Ctrl / Cmd+K and then Ctrl / Cmd+C.
As of now (version 1.16.3), you can check all available keyboard shortcuts by going into
File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Here you can search for shortcuts related to code comments.
For users who are coming from Sublime Text or likes to have Ctrl+Shift+/, you can make the change from the above mentioned settings panel or simply install the Sublime Text Keymap extension by Microsoft.
Update: As VS Code has become pretty much standard editor for almost everything these days, I would say picking option 1 is always helpful.
For my keyboard layout it's Ctrl + § for:
//
//
//
And Shift + Alt + A for:
/*
...
*/
For me to comment I use:
Ctrl + k, Ctrl + c
and to uncomment:
Ctrl + k, Ctrl + u
I am using ubuntu 18.0.4
To comment multiple line on visual code use
shift+alt+a
To comment single line use
ctrl + /
Select all line you want comments
CTRL + /
Win10 with French / English Keyboard CTRL + / , ctrl+k+u and ctrl+k+l don't work.
Here's how it works:
/* */ SHIFT + ALT + A
// CTRL + É
É key is next to right Shift.
All the key board shorcuts for VS code can be found in the link : Link
Add a Line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+C
Remove a line comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+U
More shortcut Ctrl+/
On Windows 10 you can use CTRL + } to comment/uncomment on any line or block of code.
CTRL + SHIFT + A for CSS multiline
Ubuntu 16
VSCode Version 1.17.2
For multiline commenting in Python VSCode, all you have to do it just:
Ctrl + /
If you are using VSCode in a linux environment, then you can comment multiple lines by either:
Selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + Shift + A (Block commenting)
Or, selecting a block of code => then, press Ctrl + / (Single-line commenting applied to all selected lines)
Hope this helps.
In the new version of VSCODE ( version 1.26.1)
Go to File > preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Search for comment Double click the existing shortcut 'keybinding`
And press the new keyboard shortcut in my case ctrl + shfit + /
You can assign any shortcuts you want. Hope it helps.
You can find the shortcut in the Edit menu :
Edit > Toggle Block Comment => Shift-Alt-A
visual studio 2017 we do a: Comment Selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C
press Ctrl+K to get shortcut. press Ctrl+C to confirm
http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/2017/
For doing on mac: CMD + Shift + 7
For me it was ctrl + ' (I am using a swedish layout for the keyboard). Hope that helps anyone.
Select lines which you want to Comment
Then press Ctrl + / to make selected lines comment
And to uncomment:
Select the commented lines you which want to uncomment
First press Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Uto make commented lines uncomment
In windows you need to press ctrl + / in mac you can do ⌘ + / to make multiple comment
// public function index()
// {
// $badgeIcon = BadgeIcon::all();
// return $this->showAll($badgeIcon);
// }
Then if you want to un-comment then select the lines again and then press ctrl + /(in windows) again ⌘ + /(in mac).
If your Ctrl+/ isn't working maybe you need to change it to Ctrl+NumPad_Divide.
1.Select the text, Press Cntl + K, C to comment (Ctr+E+C )
2.Move the cursor to the first line after the delimiter // and before the Code text.
3.Press Alt + Shift and use arrow keys to make selection. ...
4.Once the selection is done, press space bar to enter a single space.
Multi-Line Comment in VS Code
To comment the code select the lines and hit: Alt + Shift + A
To Uncomment select the commented code and hit: Alt + Shift + A
For windows, the default key for multi-line comment is Alt + Shift + A
For windows, the default key for single line comment is Ctrl + /
CTRL + SHIFT + A
For Red Hat,centos
Select item
then CTRL+SHIFT+A
Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger the information tooltip that is typically shown when hovering over items in VS Code with the mouse?
Example hover tooltip:
Press Ctrl + K, Ctrl + I, that's what you want
If you're using the VSCodeVim plugin, you can use gh to show the tooltip.
The corresponding cmd name in VS Keybindings is editor.action.showHover. On mac for me the key combo was:
⌘ Command + k
⌘ Command + i
You can also access it through your command palette by typing show hover. It will show you the current keybinding and you can execute it as well.
If you would like you can remap it like this:
{
"key": "ctrl+e",
"command": "editor.action.showHover",
"when": "editorTextFocus"
}
With that, if your cursor is within an error/warning squiggly line, you can hit ctrl+e to show what you would normally see with hover.
To make the box disappear, I am having to hit escape. It would be cool if there was a editor.action.toggleHover or something like that, but in the meantime this works great!
2021 Update- As far as I can tell, the new command that we're all looking for here is:
"Show Definition Preview Hover"
The shortcut for that command was unbound. I set it back to ctrl+h, which is what worked for me in the past. Here's more info-
https://newbedev.com/how-to-trigger-documentation-popup-in-vscode
You could use Ctrl + Shift + M to show all the errors:
and then use Ctrl + . to show the list of the Quick Fixes.
A simple way, which is also on the official site of Microsoft, is the simultaneous use of
ctr + k + i are together.
Just make sure the cursor is on the desired area
What are the keyboard shortcuts for creating multiple cursors in VS Code?
Press Alt and click. This works on Windows and Linux*, and it should work on Mac, too.
More multi-cursor features are now available in Visual Studio Code 0.2:
Multi cursor improvements
Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on Mac) selects next occurrence of word under cursor or of the current selection
Ctrl+K Ctrl+D moves last added cursor to next occurrence of word under cursor or of the current selection
The commands use matchCase by default. If the find widget is open, then the find widget settings (matchCase / matchWholeWord) will be used for determining the next occurrence
Ctrl+U (Cmd+U on Mac) undoes the last cursor action, so if you added a cursor too many or made a mistake, you can press Ctrl+U (Cmd+U on Mac) to go back to the previous cursor state.
Adding cursor up or down (Ctrl+Alt+Up / Ctrl+Alt+Down) (Cmd+Alt+Up / Cmd+Alt+Down on Mac) now reveals the last added cursor to make it easier to work with multiple cursors on more than 1 viewport height at a time (i.e. select 300 lines and only 80 fit in the viewport).
This makes it a lot easier to introduce multiple cursors
* Linux drag-window conflict:
Some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) assign window dragging to Alt+LeftMouse, which will conflict with VSCode.
So, recent versions of VSCode let you toggle between Alt+LeftMouse and Ctrl+LeftMouse under the Selection menu, as detailed in another answer.
Alternately, you could change your OS key bindings using gsettings as mentioned in another answer.
Multi-word (and multi-line) cursors/selection in VS Code
Multi-word:
Windows / OS X:
Ctrl+Shift+L / ⌘+Shift+L selects all instances of the current highlighted word
Ctrl+D / ⌘+D selects the next instance... and the one after that... etc.
Multi-line:
For multi-line selection, Ctrl+Alt+Down / ⌘+Alt+Shift+Down will extend your selection or cursor position to the next line. Ctrl+Right / ⌘+Right will move to the end of each line, no matter how long. To escape the multi-line selection, hit Esc.
See the VS Code keybindings (OS sensitive)
May 2017
As of version 1.13
Add multiple cursors with Ctrl / Cmd + Click
VSCode developers have introduced a new setting, editor.multiCursorModifier, to change the modifier key for applying multiple cursors to Cmd + Click on macOS and Ctrl + Click on Windows and Linux. This lets users coming from other editors such as Sublime Text or Atom continue to use the keyboard modifier they are familiar with.
The setting can be set to:
ctrl/Cmd - Maps to Ctrl on Windows and Cmd on macOS.
alt - The existing default Alt.
There's also a new menu item Use Ctrl + Click for Multi-Cursor in the Selection menu to quickly toggle this setting.
The Go To Definition and Open Link gestures will also respect this setting and adapt such that they do not conflict. For example, when the setting is ctrl/Cmd, multiple cursors can be added with Ctrl / Cmd + Click, and opening links or going to definition can be invoked with Alt +Click.
With fixing Issue #2106, it is now possible to also remove a cursor by using the same gesture on top of an existing selection.
I had problem with ALT key, fix is to change alt+click as a Gnome hotkey which clobbers multi-cursor select in VSCode, to super+click by running:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"
Source: http://2buntu.com/articles/1529/visual-studio-code-comes-to-linux/
Try Ctrl+Alt+Shift+⬇ / ⬆, without mouse, or hold "alt" and click on all the lines you want.
Note: Tested on Windows.
Cmd+Option+Shift⬇ / ⬆ works for me on newest VSCode 1.29.1 and newest OSX High Sierra 10.13.6, Macbook Pro.
This adds a vertical line up/down on screen, like Option+Click/Vertical Drag does in Sublime Text.
To add multiple cursors at any points in your file, including multiple ones on the same line, do Cmd (or Option)+Click anywhere you want, shown in this video. You may also search for text (Cmd+F) that repeats multiple times, then press Option+Return to add cursors at end of EACH word.
On XFCE, go to Applications -> Settings -> Settings editor - > xfwm4 -> easy_click(disable value)
Now you can Insert Cursor with Alt + Click
I've also disabled L/R Workspace (ctrl + alt + L/R) settings in Settings -> Window manager -> Keyboard
As of Visual Studio Code version 0.10.9, you can now do a Create Multiple Cursors from Selected Lines by selecting multiple lines, and pressing Shift+Alt+I
Note: This is similar to Sublime Text's Ctrl+Shift+L functionality.
Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/vJanuary#_thank-you
Relevant PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/1479
On Ubuntu, in order to enable multi-cursor clicking you will need to re-assign Alt+click first, by running the command below. This is because by default Ubuntu uses the shortcut itself and has it takes precedence.
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"
There is no binding for exactly what you want.
The only thing that comes close is Ctrl+F2 which will select all of them at once.
You can bind it to Ctrl+D doing the following:
Click on File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
You should see a pane full of the current bindings and on the right a list of custom bindings
In the current bindings, search for Ctrl+F2 and copy that whole line and paste it into the right pane.
You might have to remove the comma at the end and then change Ctrl+F2 to Ctrl+D and then save the file.
It should look something like this:
// Place your key bindings in this file to overwrite the defaults
[
{ "key": "ctrl+d", "command": "editor.action.changeAll",
"when": "editorTextFocus" }
]
Ctrl+Alt+⬇ / ⬆ add cursors above and below the current line. Still nowhere near as good as sublime or brackets though. I can't see anything equivalent to Ctrl+D in sublime in the keyboard shortcuts file.
https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates
New version (Visual Studio 0.3.0) support more multi cursor feature.
Multi-cursor
Here's multi-cursor improvements that we've made.
⌘D selects the word at the cursor, or the next occurrence of the current selection.
⌘K ⌘D moves the last added cursor to next occurrence of the current selection.
The two actions pick up the matchCase and matchWholeWord settings of the find widget.
⌘U undoes the last cursor action, so if you added one cursor too many or made a mistake, press ⌘U to return to the previous cursor state.
Insert cursor above (⌥⌘↑) and insert cursor below (⌥⌘↓) now reveals the last added cursor, making it easier to work with multi-cursors spanning more than one screen height (i.e., working with 300 lines while only 80 fit in the screen).
And short cut of select multi cursor change into cmd + d(it's same as Sublime Text. lol)
We can expect that next version supports more convenient feature about multi cursor ;)
Alt+Click. It works in Windows.
Details: Visual Studio Code Documentation
In my XFCE (version 4.12), it's in Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Accessibility.
There's a dropdown field Key used to grab and move windows:, set this to None.
Alt + Click works now in VS Code to add more cursor.
In Visual Studio without mouse: Alt+Shift+{ Arrow }.
You can do the following per the Selection menu:
Press/hold Alt+Ctrl+Up Arrow/Alt+Ctrl+Down Arrow as required to create sufficient cursors, then Ctrl+D can be used to expand the selections.
Same issue on Ubuntu-MATE, but here you resolve it by:
gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"
Alt + Command + Shift will add a cursor to the next instance of what you've selected. E.g. a variable or function name
For xfce users, just go to settings>window manager tweaks>accessibility there change the key used to grab and move windows: to super as demonstrated in the image below.
Now you can use super instead of alt. Wallah!! Go make multiple cursors by alt + click.
First go to "Keyboard Shortcuts", you can get there by hitting Cmd+k then Cmd+s, or for Windows Ctrl+k then Ctrl+s.
Once you're there, search for "Add Cursor Above" and "Add Cursor Below". You can even assign them your own key-bindings.
On windows:
CTRL+Click if you are using vscode
CTRL+Alt+Click if you are using visual studio
For Ubuntu Users
ALT + SHIFT + ⬇ / ⬆
Alt + Click works in OSX. Code Version 1.14.2
It's so easy to select a block of code and tab out, but how about the reverse?
Currently, I just search and replace for white space at the beginning of the line. Is there anything faster?
In Visual Studio and most other half decent IDEs you can simply do SHIFT+TAB. It does the opposite of just TAB.
I would think and hope that the IDEs you mention support this as well.
Shift-tab outdents again :)
The standard shortcut keys are covered in Standard Accelerators.
You'll find many of the more esoteric ones on FAQ What editor keyboard shortcuts are available?.
Here is a general answer for untab:
In Python IDLE: Ctrl + [
In Eclipse: Shift + Tab
In Visual Studio: Shift + Tab
In general, Shift + Tab works for any environment.
This workaround works most of the time. It uses Eclipse's 'smart insert' features instead:
Control + X to erase the selected block of text, and keep it for pasting.
Control + Shift + Enter, to open a new line for editing above the one you are at.
You might want to adjust the tabbing position at this point. This is where tabbing will start, unless you are at the beginning of the line.
Control + V to paste back the buffer.
I hope this helps until Shift + TAB is implemented in Eclipse.
Shift + Tab does that in Flex Builder (based on Eclipse), so it hopefully should work in regular Eclipse :)
In PyCharm, just use Shift + Tab to move a block of code left.
You can do this by going to the Window menu → Preferences, and then open the General list. Choose Keys.
Scroll down the list of keys until you see "Shift Left". Click that. Below that, you'll see some boxes, one of which lets you bind a key. It won't accept Shift + Tab, so I bound it to Shift + `. Apply Apply and Close, and you're all set.
Yes, in PyCharm: Shift + Tab works fine.
You can also change the shortcut. Use the Command + K, Command + S shortcuts to open the Keyboard Shortcut menu. Search for the "tab" and find the "outdent" in the list.