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Old way with CTRL + K CTRL + C works for commenting but old way CTRL + K CTRL + U not working anymore for uncomment, if anyone know new shortcut I will be grateful.
Thanks.
I just updated my VSCode to the version you mentioned. The combinations work exactly as you described. It must be something that was changed on your computer.
Go to File => Preferences => Keyboard Shortcuts
(Or press CTRL + K and then CTRL + S)
look for Remove Line Comment. In my settings it still says
If your VSCode has a different keybinding, change it back to what you want.
I had the same problem. In the newer version its actually CTRL+/ to uncomment.
CTRL+/
Note that this is the / on the numeric keypad!
Mac OS you can use COMMAND + / for commenting and uncommenting
In windows Inorder to comment and uncomment the code in VS CODE
CTRL + K ========> to comment the code
CTRL + / ========> to uncomment the code
use ctrl+ / to uncomment in VS Code.
On Windows, I am using strg + #
It's a default shortcut in VSCode --> toggle line comment
but it works also for blocks.
In windows system, below commands works for me for comment and uncomment in VS CODE-
CTRL + K --- to comment OR CTRL + / ---to comment
CTRL + / --- to uncomment
For windows:
Remove Comment Line:- ctrl+k ctrl+u
For Mac OS just select all the stuff you want to comment or uncomment and press Command + /
What worked for me is :
CTRL + Shift + K
I'm using VS code on Mac, Version: 1.49.0 and I had similar problem.
In my case shortcut "cmd + k, cmd + u" made text uppercase. It turned out I have two commands assigned to this shortcut.
In "Keyboard Shortcuts" you can also filter by shortcuts (or "Keybindings") by pressing keyboard icon on the right in the search bar, it will record keys:
To fix this, I just changed "Transform to Uppercase" Keybinding to something else as I rarely use it.
Take care. Some extensions change the keyboard shortcuts. Take a look in the attached screenshot. I don't know what extension changed mine to Shift + Ctrl + K on Windows.
I recommend instead of using separate shortcuts for add/remove comment to set toggle line/block comment with the same shortcut so it also remove comment when the line/block is commented out:
editor.action.commentLine
editor.action.blockComment
you can use
Ctrl + /
for both comment and uncomment the code in vscode
Use CTRL+/ for both comment and uncomment.
Also here is the cheatsheet with all shortcuts.
https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
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 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.
Does anyone know if there is the shortcut "go to line + column" in Eclipse?
Ctrl+L Jump to Line Number. To hide/show line numbers, press ctrl+F10 and select 'Show Line Numbers'
There is no way to go to a particular column according to my knowledge.
On OSX, the shortcut is ⌘ + L
It you want more short-cuts, refer http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Eclipse.html
As you are aware CTRL+L goes to a particular Line, there is also CTRL+Q to go to the last edit location. The is no key combination in Eclipse to go to a particular Line and Column.
You can use a Keyboard Macro (available as hardware in some keyboards and included as software with some other keyboards). An explanation for Microsoft is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237179 .
A Program like Autohotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/ can also be used.
You can use Ctrl + L to jump to specific line number
You can find a large list of eclipse shortcuts here: http://javatutorial.net/eclipse-shortcuts
You can use 'Command' + L to find line number in eclipse.
You can use CTRL + forward or backward key to jump to the next dot in the same line.
for example, in System.out.println("test"); you can switch between System, out and println by using CTRL + forward and backward key.
Does Eclipse have a hot key to comment a block? and to uncomment a block?
Ctrl-/ to toggle "//" comments and Ctrl-Shift-/ to toggle "/* */" comments. At least for Java, anyway - other tooling may have different shortcuts.
Ctrl-\ will remove a block of either comment, but won't add comments.
Note: As for Eclipse CDT 4.4.2, Ctrl-Shift-/ will not uncomment a "/* */" block comment. Use Ctrl-Shift-\ in that case.
EDIT: It's Ctrl on a PC, but on a Mac the shortcuts may all be Cmd instead. I don't have a Mac myself, so can't easily check.
There are two possibilities:
Every line prepended with //
ctrl + / to comment
ctrl + \ to uncomment
Note: on recent eclipse cdt, ctrl + / is used to toggle comments (and ctrl + \ has no more effect)
Complete block surrounded with block comments /*
ctrl + shift + / to comment
ctrl + shift + \ to remove
For Eclipse Editor
For Single Line (Toggle Effect)
Comment : Ctrl+Shift+c
Uncomment: Ctrl+Shift+c
For Multiple Lines (Toggle Effect)
(Select the lines you want to comment)
comment : Ctrl+Shift+c
Uncomment: Ctrl+Shift+c
It is for all html , css , jsp , java .
It gives toggle effect.
I came here looking for an answer and ended up finding it myself, thanks to the previous responses.
In my particular case, while editing PHP code on Eclipse Juno, I have found that the previous commands won't work for me. Instead of them, I should press Ctrl+ 7 (on the superior number key) to obtain the double bar comment ("//"). There's no way I can comment them with the previous mentioned key combinations.
As other answers pointed out, the following shortcuts are defined by default (I'm referring to editing java source - shortcut bindings can be found in eclipse Window>Preferences, under 'General'/'Keys', search for 'comment'):
to add a block comment, the shortcut (binding) is: Ctrl + Shift + /
to remove a block comment, the shortcut (binding) is: Ctrl + Shift + \
Unfortunately, these shortcuts did not work for me (on Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers, version: Juno Service Release 2).
The reason, I think, is my keyboard layout (QWERTZ keyboard layout used in Germany - see here for further information), where '/' actually has to be written via 'Shift + 7'.
I therefore had to change the shortcut bindings for comments (just did it for editing java source) in the eclipse preferences (under 'General'/'Keys') as follows:
Change the binding of command 'Add Block Comment' (when 'Editing Java Source') from 'Ctrl + Shift + /' to 'Ctrl + Shift + 7'
Change the binding of command 'Remove Block Comment' (when 'Editing Java Source') from 'Ctrl + Shift + \' to 'Ctrl + Shift + 8'
Unbind the binding 'Ctrl + /' for command 'Toggle Comment' (when 'Editing Java Source'); instead of assigning a new binding, I simply unbound this shortcut, as there already was one with Ctrl+7 and one with Ctrl+Shift+C (which both work for me)
I have Eclipse IDE for Java Developers Version: Juno Service Release 2 and it is -
Every line prepended with //
ctrl + / for both comment and uncomment .
In addition, you can change Eclipse shortcut in Windows -> Preferences -> General -> Keys
For single line comment you can use Ctrl+/ and for multiple line comment you can use Ctrl + Shift + / after selecting the lines you want to comment in java editor.
On Mac/OS X you can use ⌘ + / to comment out single lines or selected blocks.
for java code
if you want comments single line then put double forward slash before code of single line manually or by pressing Ctrl +/
example: //System.Out.println("HELLO");
and for multi-line comments, Select code how much you want to comments and then press
Shift+CTRL+/
Now for XML code comments use
Select code first and then press Shift+CTRL+/ for both single line and multi-line comments
For JAVA :
Single line comment:
// this is a single line comment
To comment: Ctrl + Shift + C
To uncomment: Press again Ctrl + Shift + C
Multiple line comment:
/* .........
.........
......... */
First, select all the lines that you want to comment/uncomment then,
To comment: Ctrl + Shift + C
To uncomment: Press again Ctrl + Shift + C
I hope, this will work for you!
It depends upon the version of OS - for me it works with Command + 7
Using Eclipe Oxygen command + Shift + c on macOSx Sierra will add/remove comments out multiple lines of code
Using Eclipse Mars.1 CTRL + / on Linux in Java will comment out multiple lines of code. When trying to un-comment those multiple lines, Eclipse was commenting the comments. I found that if there is a blank line in the comments it will do this. If you have 10 lines of code, a blank line, and 10 more lines of code, CTRL + / will comment it all. You'll have to remove the line or un-comment them in blocks of 10.
Eclipse Oxygen with CDT, PyDev:
Block comments under Source menu
Add Comment Block Ctrl + 4
Add Single Comment Block Ctrl+Shift+4
Remove Comment Block Ctrl + 5
I have Mac ,I was also facing problem to comment multiple line in STS
I have tried
single line comment:
command+/
Multi line comment:
control+command+/
Multi line uncomment:
control+command+\
And it was success
For single line comment just use //
and for multiline comments use
/*
your code here
*/
Select the text you want to Block-comment/Block-uncomment.
To comment, Ctrl + 6
To uncomment, Ctrl + 8