Using Notepad++ I want to select individual, non-contiguous lines, copy them, and past them and include the CR/LF at the end. Preferrably, I would hold Ctrl, then click the line numbers I want, then press Ctrl+C or right click and select copy; however doing this selects all text (which is frustrating and doesn't make much sense). Furthermore, only selecting the line partially includes the line below it, so that if i press Ctrl+Shift+Up(or down) the line below it also moves up or down.
In summary, I want to copy non-contiguous lines and past them with their respective EOL characters.
Use Ctrl+F2 to mark desired lines.
Menu Search > Bookmarks > Copy bookmarked lines will copy these lines into clipboard.
As option for step 1, you can use Mark tab of Find dialog (Ctrl+F) with Mark Line option checked.
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I have a text file where I would like to change all the Carriage Return to Line Feed. I am working on a Mac, and it seems like BBedit should be able to easily do this. However, in the search function it does not appear to differentiate between CR (\r) and LF (\n). Searching for either character gets the same hits, and a search for "\r" to replace with "\n" does not work.
Is there some other way to represent CR and LF, so that BBedit can differentiate between them?
A possibly simpler way to do this is to make sure you enable "Line Break Types" in BBedit's Preferences -> Appearance.
This will add a Line Types popup menu at the bottom of the window.
Not only does it show you what the current format is, but it makes it trivial to switch between them.
(I also turn on "Text Encoding" as well, in case I need to switch between UTF8 and UFT16 and others.)
For a single file:
Text -> Apply Text Transform
Select Change Line Endings
Click the Configure button and choose your desired line endings
For multiple files:
File -> New -> Text Factory
Select Change Line Endings
Click the Options button and choose your desired line endings
Save the Text Factory and apply it to the files you want changed through the Choose and Options buttons
I want to select multiple lines and put a cursor at the beginning of each line. Sublime Text can do this with Ctrl-Shift-L
select multiple lines
ctrl + shift + L and then put cursor at beginning of each line
Press Crtl + Shift + Alt + Arrow up/down to select multiple lines in Visual Studio Code. Note that the selected lines will be in one column (if possible).
You can also mark some lines and then do this combination and you have all selected lines included.
Moreover you can press and hold Alt and click the lines you need. This way you can select multiple lines that are not neighbours or in the same column.
To do exactly what Ctrl-Shift-L does in Sublime Text, you must do:
On Windows:
Select the lines.
Alt-Shift-I (will add multiple cursors)
Shift-Home (will go at the beginning of each line and be selected)
On Mac :
Select the lines.
alt-shift-I (will add multiple cursors)
cmd-shift-←
(will go at the beginning of each line and be selected)
More information in this answer.
Put cursor at beginning of first line
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Arrow down/up will put a cursor at the beginning of the following/preceding lines
Ctrl-I will select those lines with the cursor at the beginning of each line.
NOTE : On my vscode the cursors look like they might be shifted down one line but they actually are not - the are in the right place. If you start typing, it works but you have to hit Enter when you are done to get back separate lines. It is a little quirky but works as you would expect.
EDIT (using a hint from #Maxime's answer)
Select your test first.
Alt-Shift-I : puts cursors at the end of each of those lines but text unselected (I as in island not a lowercase L)
Function-Home : put cursors at beginning of each line.
Ctrl-I : selects all lines.
Important: read the NOTE above.
--------------------- v1.43 see How to put the cursor at the end of all selected lines in Visual Studio Code? with column selection mode it is easy to put the cursor at the beginning or end of lines selected by dragging.
You can hold alt and click the places you need with the mouse. This way you can select rows that aren't related, like row 10,15,18. Also you can select at different places in the same row.
I hope this helps someone, but there is a setting in VSCode called Editor: Multi Cursor Modifier which may do what OP is asking:
I have a list of data to which I need to put a ' symbol at the start of the line and at the end of the line. So the original data looks like this:
abcde
cdeab
deabc
eabcd
And I want all of the lines to look like this:
'abcde'
'cdeab'
'deabc'
'eabcd'
In my real data, I would have 10,000 of lines. So if I can do something like Ctrl+Shift+A to select the entire document and then have some magic shortcut to change from selecting all lines to editing all lines that would be perfect!
You could edit and replace with a regex:
Find (Ctrl+F):
^(.+)$
Replace:
'$1'
This regex finds any content on a line and wraps it inside quotes. The $1 refers to whatever is matched inside the parentheses in the regex. In this case, it's "one or more characters" i.e. everything on the line. Be sure to tick the regex icon.
If every line may or may not have a space before the content, and you want every line to have a space, try this:
Find:
^ ?(.+)$
Replace (notice the space before the first quote):
'$1'
Here is an easy way to do this:
Ctrl+A to select all or select your desired text.
Shift+Alt+I to put a cursor at the end of each line.
Type your ' (or whatever you want at the end).
Home will move all your cursors to the beginning of the lines.
Type your ' (or whatever you want at the beginning of all the lines).
You can use the Alt + Shift shortcut.
First press Alt + Shift then click the mouse button on the first line.
Go to the last line, and then do the same.
This will mark all the parts of one side. Whatever you type will be reflected in the marked spaces.
Do the same on the other side too.
Use Toggle Multi curosr Modified from action pane.
Select the cursor points with ctrl + <Mouse click> , you can modify everything simultaneously.
This will require lots of manual efforts if lines are more
You can use Find and Replace.
Besides, paste to Excel and using a function to add character '.
The first thing that came to my mind - replace abcde with 'abcde' line by using option Find and Replace option. I'm pretty sure Visual Studio Code has something similar to that.
You can use the Shift +Alt shortcut for windows and for Mac use Shift + Option
First press Alt + Shift/Shift + Option then click the mouse button on the first line.
This will mark all the parts of one side. Whatever you type will be reflected in the marked spaces.
Place Cursor where you want to insert/delete text.
Goto Selection Menu and choose Column Selection Mode
Scroll to the bottom of the data and shift + click in the last line where you placed the first cursor.
Perform action (add/delete whatevs)
Repeat for whatever other areas you want to change.
v: 1.74.3
1- You can use the Ctrl + H shortcut (menu Edit → Replace)
Enter abcde in Find Control.
Enter 'abcde' in Replace Control.
Then press Ctrl + Alt + Enter.
I have a csv file that has random line breaks throughout the file. (probably load errors when the file was created where the loader somehow managed to put a carriage return into the field)
How do I go in and remove all carriage returns / line breaks where the last character is not "
I have word and sublime text available for text editors
I have tried ^p with a letter infront and find and replace, but that doesnt seem to work for some of the lines for some reason
Example
"3203","Shelving Units
",".033"
instead of
"3203","Shelving Units",".033"
and
"3206","Broom
","1.00"
instead of
"3206","Broom","1.00"
Menu > Find > Replace... or Ctrl+H
Select "Regular Expression" (probably a .* icon in the bottom left, depending on your theme).
Use \n to select newlines (LF) or \r\n (CRLF).
As #GerardRoche said you can use search and replace in Sublime Text. Open it via ctrl+h and press alt+r to toggle regex to enable it. (You may want to create a backup of your file before doing such changes.)
Search for (?<=[^"\n])\n+ and replace it with nothing, press Replace All or ctrl+alt+enter to replace it.
The regex just mean: search for alt least one (+) newlines (\n), that are preceded by something different than a quotation mark or a newline (?<=[^"\n]).
You don't need to worry about carriage returns, because ST only uses them when reading and writing the file and not in the editor.
I'm trying to use the multi cursor functionality of vscode on a large(ish) file.
the file is too large to select every line individually with ctrl-alt-up or down. In sublime-text I would select everything and push ctrl-shift-l. Is there a similar thing in vscode. I've tried using a regex search for ^, but that gives me an error stating "Expression matches everything".
The command Selection / Add Cursors to Line Ends altshifti will put a cursor on every line in the current selection. (For mac use optshifti)
Tip: You can pull up the keyboard shortcut reference sheet with ctrlk,ctrls (as in, those two keyboard combos in sequence).
(For mac use cmdk,cmds)
Hold Alt+Shift and select the block. Then press End or Right button.
You get selected individual lines.
I use version VSCode 1.5.3 in Windows.
Hold Alt+Shift+i
Hold Home (fn+-> Mac) for right-most or End for left most(fn+<- Mac)
This feature is actually called split selection into lines in many editors.
Sublime Text uses the default keybinding, CTRLSHIFT L
VSCode uses ALTSHIFTI
For Atom you actually need to edit your keymap to something like this
'.platform-win32 .editor, .platform-linux .editor':
'ctrl-shift-L': 'editor:split-selections-into-lines'
Real Lines vs Display Lines
First we have to understand the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines to completely understand the answer of the question.
When Word Wrap is enabled, each line of text that exceeds the width of the window will display as wrapped. As a result, a single line in the file may be represented by multiple lines on the display.
The easiest way to tell the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines is by looking at the line number in the left margin of the text editor. Lines that begin with a number correspond to the real lines, which may span one or more display lines. Each time a line is wrapped to fit inside the window, it begins without a line number.
Cursor At the Beginning of each Display Lines:
Cursor At the Beginning of each Real Lines:
Answer to the Question
Now that we know the difference between Display Lines and Real Lines, we can now properly answer the actual question.
Hold AltShift and select the text block.
Press Home to put cursor on the beginning of every Display Line.
Press End to put cursor on the end of every Display Line.
Press HomeHome (Home twice) to put cursor on the beginning of every Real Line.
Press EndEnd (End twice) to put cursor on the end of every Real Line.
Please understand that AltShiftI put cursor on the end of every Real Line.
Install the extension Sublime Commands.
[Sublime Commands] Adds commands from Sublime Text to VS Code: Transpose, Expand Selection to Line, Split into Lines, Join Lines.
(Don't forget to add the keybinding(s) from the extensions details page to your keybindings.json)
Doesn't VS Code already have a "split into lines" command?
Yes, yes it does. However it differs from the one in Sublime.
In VS Code, when you split into lines your selection gets deselected and a cursor appears at the end of each line that was selected (except for the last line where the cursor appears at the end of the selection).
In Sublime, when you split into lines a cursor appears at the end of each line (with the same exception as in VS Code) and the selection is divided on each line and "given" to the same line.
I have the same problem, i'm used to Alt + drag to do 'box selections' in visual studio but it does'n work in code.
It seems to be impossible for now to do it differently than by selecting every single line.
However plugins should be supported soon so we will likely see a plugin for this if not implemented directly by microsoft.
From visual studio uservoice forums:
We plan to offer plugin support for Visual Studio Code. Thank you for your interests and look for more details in our blog in the coming weeks. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vscode.
For the preview we are looking for exactly this type of feedback. Keep it coming.
Sean McBreen – VS Code Team Member