How to select all instances of a variable and edit variable name in Sublime

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If I select a variable  not just any string  in my code  all other instances of that variable get a stroke  white outline  around them     Is there a keyboard shortcut that will let me select all of those instances of the variable and edit them all at once     Things I ve Tried    D   K  and  U lets me select them one-by-one  but I have to manually exclude the non-variable string matches     And using Ctrl G simply selects all the string matches     Clearly  Sublime is able to differentiate between variable and string matches  Is there no way to select just the variable matches

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Despite much effort  I have not found a built-in or plugin-assisted way to do what you re trying to do  I completely agree that it should be possible  as the program can distinguish foo from buffoon when you first highlight it  but no one seems to know a way of doing it     However  here are some useful key combos for selecting words in Sublime Text 2    Ctrl G - selects all occurrences of the current word  AltF3 on Windows Linux    D - selects the next instance of the current word  CtrlD     K  D - skips the current instance and goes on to select the next one  CtrlK CtrlD   U -  soft undo   moves back to the previous selection  CtrlU     E   H - uses the current selection as the  Find  field in Find and Replace  CtrlE CtrlH

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I know the question is about Macs  but I got here searching the answer for Ubuntu  so I guess my answer could be useful to someone   Easy way to do it  AltF3

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At this moment  2020-10-17  if you select a text element and hit CTRL SHIFT ALT M it will highlight every instance within the code chunk

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To me  this is the biggest mistake in Sublime  Alt F3 is hard to reach remember  and Ctrl Shift G makes no sense considering Ctrl D is  add next instance to selection     Add this to your User Key Bindings  Preferences   Key Bindings       keys     ctrl shift d     command    find all under       Now you can highlight something  press Ctrl Shift D  and it will add every other instance in the file to the selection

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As user1767754 said  the key here is to not make any selection initially    Just place the cursor inside the variable name  don t double click to select it  For single character variables  place the cursor at the front or end of the variable to not make any selection initially    Now keep hitting Cmd D for next variable selection or Ctrl Cmd G for selecting all variables at once  It will magically select only the variables

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This worked for me  Put your cursor at the beginning of the word you want to replace  then   CtrlK  CtrlD  CtrlD       That should select as many instances of the word as you like  then you can just type the replacement

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Put the cursor in the variable  Note  the key is to start with an empty selection  Don t highlight  just put your cursor there      Press  D as needed  Not on a Mac  Use CtrlD    Didn t work  Try again  making sure to start with nothing selected  More commands   Find All  Ctrl G selects all occurences at once  Not on a Mac  AltF3 Undo Selection   U steps backwards  Not on a Mac  CtrlU Quick Skip Next   K D skips the next occurence  Not on a Mac  CtrlKCtrlD Sublime Docs

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It s mentioned by  watsonic that in Sublime Text 3 on Mac OS  starting with an empty selection  simply   G  AltF3 on Windows  does the trick  instead of  D     G in Sublime Text 2

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The Magic is  you have to start with an empty selection  so put your cursor in front of the word character you want to multi-select and press Ctrl D

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Just in case anyone else stumbled on this question while looking for a way to replace a string across multiple files  it is Command Shift F

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