Duplicate line in Visual Studio Code

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I am trying to find the shortcut for duplicating a line in Visual Studio Code  I am using 1 3 1  I tried the obvious CTRL   D but that doesn t seem to work

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Mac  Duplicate Line Down  shift   option     Duplicate Line Up shift   option

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You can use the following depending on your OS   Windows    Shift  Alt         or   Shift  Alt        Mac   Shift   Option      or  Shift  Option      Linux   Ctrl Shift Alt   or Ctrl Shift Alt       Note  For some linux distros use Numpad arrows

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Use the following  Shift   Alt    or

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Ubuntu     Duplicate Line Up   Ctrl   Alt   Shift   8 Duplicate Line Down   Ctrl   Alt   Shift   2

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Update that may help Ubuntu users if they still want to use the   and   instead of another set of keys    I just installed a fresh version of VSCode on Ubuntu 18 04 LTS and I had duplicate commands for Add Cursor Above and Add Cursor Below    Original Keybindings  I just removed the bindings that used Ctrl and added my own with the following  Copy Line Up  Ctrl   Shift      Copy Line Down  Ctrl   Shift      New Keybindings

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It s possible to create keybindings that are only active when Vim for VSCode is on and in a certain mode  i e    Normal    Insert   or  Visual     To do so  use Ctrl   Shift   P to open up VSCode s Command Palette  then search for  Preferences  Open Keyboard Shortcuts  JSON  --selecting this option will open up keybindings json  Here  custom bindings can be added    For example  here are the classic VSCode commands to move duplicate lines tweaked for ease of use in Vim                           key    alt j            command    editor action moveLinesDownAction            when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp  vim active  amp  amp  vim mode     Normal                             key    alt shift j            command    editor action copyLinesDownAction            when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp  vim active  amp  amp  vim mode     Normal                             key    alt k            command    editor action moveLinesUpAction            when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp  vim active  amp  amp  vim mode     Normal                             key    alt shift k            command    editor action copyLinesUpAction            when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp  vim active  amp  amp  vim mode     Normal                    Now we can use these Vim-friendly commands in VSCode    Alt   J to move a line down Alt   K to move a line up Shift   Alt   J to duplicate a line down Shift    Alt   K to duplicate a line up

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There is a new command in v1 40  editor action duplicateSelection unbound to any keybinding      Duplicate selection      We have added a new action named Duplicate Selection  When executed    the current selection will be duplicated and the result will be   selected  When there is no selection  the current line will be   duplicated  all without writing to the system clipboard    from https   github com microsoft vscode-docs blob vnext release-notes v1 40 md  Some may find it helpful in certain situations

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Click File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts     Search for copyLinesDownAction or copyLinesUpAction in your keyboard shortcuts    Usually it is SHIFT ALT        Update for Ubuntu     It seems that Ubuntu is hiding that shortcut from being seen by VSCode  i e  it uses it probably by its own   There is an issue about that on GitHub     In order to work in Ubuntu you will have to define your own shortcut  e g  to copy the line using ctrl shift alt j and CTRL  SHIFT   ALT   k you could use a keybindings json like this              key    ctrl shift alt j    command    editor action copyLinesDownAction                                        when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly            key    ctrl shift alt k    command    editor action copyLinesUpAction                                        when    editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly

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VC Code Version  1 22 2 Go to  Code -  Preferences -  Keyboard Shortcuts  cmd   K  cms   S   Change  edit    Add Selection To Next Find Match    cmd   what you want     for me this is  cmd   D  and I pur cmd   F  Go to  Copy Line Down    cmd   D    edit this and set cmd   D for example And for me that s all - I use mac

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Windows   Duplicate Line Down   Ctrl   Shift   D

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Search for copyLinesDownAction or copyLinesUpAction in your keyboard shortcuts  Usually  it is SHIFT ALT

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The duplicate can be achieved by CTRL C and CTRL V with cursor in the line without nothing selected

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Another 2 very usefull shortcuts are to move lines selected up and down  like sublime text does          key     ctrl shift down    command     editor action moveLinesDownAction      when     editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly       and       key     ctrl shift up    command     editor action moveLinesUpAction      when     editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly

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