Multiple select in Visual Studio

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Is there a way to select multiple non-adjoining  totally separate  texts in VS  I can do it in MS Word by selecting the texts separately by holding the Ctrl button  like this     My version is 11   Edit  I m not talking about Alt Select block selection  Also I would love to see if there exist a technique in Notepad

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There is a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 called SelectNextOccurrence which is free and open-source.

This extension makes it possible to select next occurrences of a selected text for editing.

Aims to replicate the Ctrl+D command of Sublime Text for faster coding.

Features:

Select next occurrence of current selection.
Skip occurrence
Undo occurrence
Add caret above/below
Use multiple carets to edit (Alt-click to add caret)

Visual Studio commands:

SelectNextOccurrence.SelectNextOccurrence is bound to Ctrl+D by default.
SelectNextOccurrence.SkipOccurrence is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D)
SelectNextOccurrence.UndoOccurrence is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+U)
SelectNextOccurrence.AddCaretAbove is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+Alt+Up)
SelectNextOccurrence.AddCaretBelow is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+Alt+Down)

SelectNextOccurrence options

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=thomaswelen.SelectNextOccurrence

https://github.com/2mas/SelectNextOccurrence

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Just to note   MixEdit is not completely free        This software is currently not licensed to any user and is running in   evaluation mode  MIXEDIT may be downloaded and evaluated for free    however a license must be purchased for continued use     Upon installation and use  a popup redirects to webpage - similar to SublimeText s unlicensed software pop-up message

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Now the plugin is Multi Line tricks  The end and start buttons broke the selection

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From Visual Studio 2017 Version 15 8  Ctrl   Alt   Click is now supposed to be a built-in way to manage multiple carets    https   blogs msdn microsoft com visualstudio 2018 08 30 improving-your-productivity-in-the-visual-studio-editor

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There is supposedly a way to do it now with Ctrl   Alt   Click but I use this extension because it has a bunch of other nice features that I use  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName thomaswelen SelectNextOccurrence

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MixEdit extension for Visual Studio allows you to do multiediting in the way you are describing  It supports multiple carets and multiple selections

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I couldn t find anything built in  which is sad  There is this functionality in CodeRush though   With Notepad    this feature comes in built in  Just turn on multi-editing from      Setting   Preferences   Editing   Multi-Editing Settings   But its not as intuitive as MS Word which lets you select two words by double clicking on them  after Ctrl of course

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Multi cursor edit is natively supported in Visual Studio starting from version 2017 Update 8  The following is an extract of the documentation   Ctrl   Alt   click   Add a secondary caret Ctrl   Alt   double-click   Add a secondary word selection Ctrl   Alt   click   drag   Add a secondary selection Shift   Alt       Add the next matching text as a selection Shift   Alt       Add all matching text as selections Shift   Alt       Remove last selected occurrence Shift   Alt       Skip next matching occurrence Alt   click   Add a box selection Esc or click   Clear all selections  Some of those commands are also available in the Edit menu

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In Visual Studio 2019  you can put your caret on the right place and then press SHIFT ALT and    dot   This will select the next occurrence

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in visual 2019   Open Options to show all enter image description here  and multi select  keep Ctrl   Alt then click position you want or  keep Shift   Alt then click position to multi select multi line from start to end line clicked

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Update  MixEdit extension now provides this ability   MultiEdit extension for VS allows for something similar  doesn t support multiple selections as of this writing  just multiple carets   Head over to Hanselman s for a quick animated gif of this in action  Simultaneous Editing for Visual Studio with the free MultiEdit extension

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In the Visual Studio Shift Alt     Shift Alt     Shift Alt   - match caret  Shift Alt   - remove previous caret     Same function as on VSCode Ctrl D   Much more setting Tool - Options - Environment - keyboard  Next in the Show commands containing enter Edit    Also  can use keyboard schema Visual Studio Code  Available for Visual Studio 2017  For conclusion  nice link Visual Studio All keyboard shortcuts

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For Visual Studio Code Got to this question because I was looking for a way to select multiple words with mouse click on VS Code  which should be achieved by using alt click  but this keybinding wasn t working  I think it is something related to my OS  Ubuntu   For anyone looking for something similar  try changing the key to ctrl click  Go to Selection  gt  Switch to Ctrl Click for Multi Cursor

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