How do I duplicate a line or selection within Visual Studio Code

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Using Microsoft s Visual Studio Code  how do I duplicate a line of code and then move it up and down   Similar to Sublime s cmd shift d behaviour   It s a feature that I use constantly  and am struggling using Visual Studio Code without it

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In VSCode Ctrl CCtrl V duplicates the whole line below   I prefer this to the accepted answer  because it only requires one hand to do this and feels way more natural   The accepted answer will probably do it for most people  however Down sits the other side of the keyboard   So you have two options  use both hands on  Left Hand L Shift L Alt  Right Hand Up Down   or with a single hand use the right R Shift R Alt Up Down  The second option feels weird in my opinion  I d rather use the option where my hand naturally sits on the keyboard  and if its one hand  even better

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Note that for Ubuntu users   lt   17 4   Unity uses CTRL   ALT   SHIFT   Arrow Key for moving programs across virtual workspaces  which conflicts with the VS Code shortcuts  You ll need to rebind editor action copyLinesDownAction and editor action copyLinesUpAction to avoid the conflict  or change your workspace keybindings    For Ubuntu 17 10  that uses GNOME  it seems that GNOME does not use this keybinding in the same way according to its documentation  though if someone using vanilla workspaces on 17 10 can confirm this  it might be helpful for future answer seekers

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Try ALT SHIFT UP DOWN    It worked for me

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Simply go to the file -  preferences -  keyboard shortcuts There you can change any shortcut you like  search for duplicate and change it to whatever you always use in other editors  I changed to ctrl   D

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For Windows    To Copy Up - shift alt up  To Copy Down - shift alt down  For mac    To Copy Up - shift option up  To Copy Down - shift option down  For linux    To Copy Up - ctrl shift alt 8  To Copy Down - ctrl shift alt 2  Note   You may change your keyboard shortcuts keybinding for visual studio code by pressing ctrl shift p  then type open keyboard shortcut in the pallet and then hit enter so new file will be opened  Key board shortcut file   you can see all the shortcuts over their and can change keybindings by clicking twice over the respective keybinding and then by entering your own keybinding  finally hit enter   Hope this will help somebody

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The commands your are looking for are editor action copyLinesDownAction and editor action copyLinesUpAction    You can see the associated keybindings by picking  File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts   Windows    Shift Alt Down and Shift Alt Up  Mac   Shift Option Down and Shift OptionUp  Linux   Ctrl Shift Alt Down and Ctrl Shift Alt Up   Might need to use numpad Down and Up for Linux   Furthermore  commands editor action moveLinesUpAction and editor action moveLinesDownAction are the ones to move lines and they are bound to Alt Down and Alt Up on Windows and Mac and Ctrl Down and Ctrl Up on Linux

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For Linux users  I noticed what on Linux you quite an often need to use win key  For Windows combo is  ctrl   shift    alt   up    then for Linux is same just add win key  ctrl   shift    win   alt   up  I noticed that in a few combos now  Say ctrl   alt    L locks Linux  but ctrl   win    alt   L for Intellij formats code  Under Windows is just ctrl   alt    L to format the code

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Problem There seems to be a problem with the original  quot duplicate line down quot  shortcut on Ubuntu  mostly due to a conflict with an already existing workspace related shortcut on the operating system  Workaround However  an easy workaround is to simply ctrl c  copies the entire line  and ctrl v  pastes the copied line on to a new one     Effectively  giving you the same end result

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This keymap will duplicate the current line if nothing is selected or duplicate the selected words   Access  File Preferences Keyboard shortcuts  In the right top corner  click on Open Keyboard Shortcuts  JSON    Insert this keymap         quot key quot    quot shift alt d quot       quot command quot    quot editor action duplicateSelection quot       Use alt arrows up down to move the line  Default behaviour of VS Code

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It miss an answer to this question   How to duplicate selection of code  Similar to Sublime s cmd ctrl shift d or Jetbrains  cmd ctrl d behaviour   Install plugin Duplicate selection or line from VS Code Marketplace    This extension provides bindings for ctrl d  Windows Linux  and cmd d  MacOS   To customize keyboard shortcuts Preferences -  Keyboard Shortcuts        mac    cmd d      key    ctrl d      command    geeebe duplicateText      when    editorTextFocus      Note   The shortcut does also the duplicate line so if you install it  remove your previous ctrl d shortcut on copyLinesDownAction  if you did it before  otherwise duplicate selection can bug

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in my last version Visual Studio Code 1 30 2 it wil be change automatically into     ctrl   D

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For Fedora 29 workstation  Gnome 3 30 2  and Ubuntu users    Unbind unnecessary left right workspace keyboard combinations  list them by terminal    gsettings list-recursively   grep -E  org gnome desktop wm keybindings move-to-workspace- org gnome desktop wm keybindings switch-to-workspace-    Unbind them    gsettings set org gnome desktop wm keybindings switch-to-workspace-left        gsettings set org gnome desktop wm keybindings switch-to-workspace-right        gsettings set org gnome desktop wm keybindings move-to-workspace-left        gsettings set org gnome desktop wm keybindings move-to-workspace-right        Reset duplicate shortcuts   Super Pgdown PgUp   Ctrl Alt DownArrow UpArrow Super Shift PgDown PgUp   Ctrl Alt Shift DownArrow UpArrow   They can be easily reset to work with only one shortcut in Settings Devices Keyboard Only type again Super PgUp for  Move to workspace above  as an example      Now with less duplicate shortcuts in fedora29 all vscode shortcuts for linux must work fine

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If you coming from Sublime Text and do not want to relearn new key binding  you can use this extension for Visual Code Studio   Sublime Text Keymap for VS Code This extension ports the most popular Sublime Text keyboard shortcuts to Visual Studio Code  After installing the extension and restarting VS Code your favorite keyboard shortcuts from Sublime Text are now available   https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName ms-vscode sublime-keybindings

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You can find keyboard shortcuts from      File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts   Default Keyboard Shortcuts are   Copy Lines Down Action   shift alt down  Copy Lines Up Action       shift alt up  Move Lines Up Action       alt up  Move Lines Down Action       alt down  Or you can override the keyboard shortcuts from     File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts   And editing the keybindings json  Example                    key    ctrl d            command    editor action copyLinesDownAction            when    editorTextFocus                        key    ctrl shift up            command    editor action moveLinesUpAction            when    editorTextFocus                        key    ctrl shift down            command    editor action moveLinesDownAction            when    editorTextFocus

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In VScode  they call this Copy Line Up and Copy Line Down  From the menu  go to       File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts   Check already assigned keyboard shortcut for this  or adjust yours   Sometimes the default assigned shortcut may not work  mostly because of OS   In my Ubuntu  I adjusted this to  Ctrl Shift D

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For those migrating from WebStorm PhpStorm  You could install IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings to keep using almost all the keyboard shortcuts as you did in Webstorm Phpstorm  So   Duplicate lines   gt  CTRL   D Move a line selection of code Up Down   gt  Ctrl   Shift   UP DOWN   Also  here is a list of recommended VS Code extensions that will make your transition from WebStorm Phpstorm much easier

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For Jetbrains IDE Users who migrated to VSCode   no problem    Install  1  JetBrains IDE Keymap  Extension 2  vscode-intellij-idea-keybindings Extension  Preferred     Use this Intellij Darcula Theme   Extension   The keymap has covered most of keyboard shortcuts of VS Code  and makes VS Code more  JetBrains IDE like   Above extensions imports keybindings from JetBrains to VS Code  After installing the extension and restarting VS Code you can use VS Code just like IntelliJ IDEA  Webstorm  PyCharm  etc

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Direct line duplication  without the clipboard step  is proposed by the Contextual Duplicate extension   It is mapped on ctrl K D

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