How can you create multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code

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What are the keyboard shortcuts for creating multiple cursors in VS Code

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https   code visualstudio com Updates  New version  Visual Studio 0 3 0  support more multi cursor feature   Multi-cursor Here s multi-cursor improvements that we ve made    D selects the word at the cursor  or the next occurrence of the current selection   K  D moves the last added cursor to next occurrence of the current selection  The two actions pick up the matchCase and matchWholeWord settings of the find widget   U undoes the last cursor action  so if you added one cursor too many or made a mistake  press  U to return to the previous cursor state  Insert cursor above       and insert cursor below       now reveals the last added cursor  making it easier to work with multi-cursors spanning more than one screen height  i e   working with 300 lines while only 80 fit in the screen     And short cut of select multi cursor change into cmd   d it s same as Sublime Text  lol   We can expect that next version supports more convenient feature about multi cursor

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Press Alt and click  This works on Windows and Linux   and it should work on Mac  too   More multi-cursor features are now available in Visual Studio Code 0 2      Multi cursor improvements   Ctrl D  Cmd D on Mac  selects next occurrence of word under cursor or of the current selection   Ctrl K Ctrl D moves last added cursor to next occurrence of word under cursor or of the current selection   The commands use matchCase by default  If the find widget is open  then the find widget settings  matchCase   matchWholeWord  will be used for determining the next occurrence   Ctrl U  Cmd U on Mac  undoes the last cursor action  so if you added a cursor too many or made a mistake  you can press Ctrl U  Cmd U on Mac  to go back to the previous cursor state    Adding cursor up or down  Ctrl Alt Up   Ctrl Alt Down   Cmd Alt Up   Cmd Alt Down on Mac  now reveals the last added cursor to make it easier to work with multiple cursors on more than 1 viewport height at a time  i e  select 300 lines and only 80 fit in the viewport          This makes it a lot easier to introduce multiple cursors     Linux drag-window conflict      Some distros  e g  Ubuntu  assign window dragging to Alt LeftMouse  which will conflict with VSCode       So  recent versions of VSCode let you toggle between Alt LeftMouse and Ctrl LeftMouse under the Selection menu  as detailed in another answer       Alternately  you could change your OS key bindings using gsettings as mentioned in another answer

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Same issue on Ubuntu-MATE  but here you resolve it by   gsettings set org mate Marco general mouse-button-modifier   lt Super gt

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On Ubuntu  in order to enable multi-cursor clicking you will need to re-assign Alt click first  by running the command below  This is because by default Ubuntu uses the shortcut itself and has it takes precedence    gt  gsettings set org gnome desktop wm preferences mouse-button-modifier   lt Super gt

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Try Ctrl Alt Shift        without mouse  or hold  alt  and click on all the lines you want   Note  Tested on Windows

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There is no binding for exactly what you want   The only thing that comes close is Ctrl F2 which will select all of them at once   You can bind it to Ctrl D doing the following    Click on File  gt  Preferences  gt  Keyboard Shortcuts You should see a pane full of the current bindings and on the right a list of custom bindings In the current bindings  search for Ctrl F2 and copy that whole line and paste it into the right pane   You might have to remove the comma at the end and then change Ctrl F2 to Ctrl D and then save the file     It should look something like this      Place your key bindings in this file to overwrite the defaults      key    ctrl d                  command    editor action changeAll                                        when    editorTextFocus

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In my XFCE  version 4 12   it s in Settings - gt  Window Manager Tweaks - gt  Accessibility   There s a dropdown field Key used to grab and move windows   set this to None   Alt   Click works now in VS Code to add more cursor

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May 2017 As of version 1 13  Add multiple cursors with Ctrl   Cmd   Click  VSCode developers have introduced a new setting  editor multiCursorModifier  to change the modifier key for applying multiple cursors to Cmd   Click on macOS and Ctrl   Click on Windows and Linux  This lets users coming from other editors such as Sublime Text or Atom continue to use the keyboard modifier they are familiar with   The setting can be set to    ctrl Cmd - Maps to Ctrl on Windows and Cmd on macOS  alt - The existing default Alt    There s also a new menu item Use Ctrl   Click for Multi-Cursor in the Selection menu to quickly toggle this setting    The Go To Definition and Open Link gestures will also respect this setting and adapt such that they do not conflict  For example  when the setting is ctrl Cmd  multiple cursors can be added with Ctrl   Cmd   Click  and opening links or going to definition can be invoked with Alt  Click   With fixing Issue  2106  it is now possible to also remove a cursor by using the same gesture on top of an existing selection

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In Visual Studio without mouse  Alt Shift   Arrow

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Alt   Command   Shift will add a cursor to the next instance of what you ve selected  E g  a variable or function name

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As of Visual Studio Code version 0 10 9  you can now do a Create Multiple Cursors from Selected Lines by selecting multiple lines  and pressing Shift Alt I  Note  This is similar to Sublime Text s Ctrl Shift L functionality   Source  https   code visualstudio com updates vJanuary  thank-you Relevant PR  https   github com Microsoft vscode pull 1479

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Alt   Click works in OSX  Code Version 1 14 2

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Alt Click  It works in Windows   Details  Visual Studio Code Documentation

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You can do the following per the Selection menu     Press hold Alt Ctrl Up Arrow Alt Ctrl Down Arrow  as required to create sufficient cursors  then Ctrl D can be used to expand the selections

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Ctrl Alt       add cursors above and below the current line   Still nowhere near as good as sublime or brackets though  I can t see anything equivalent to Ctrl D in sublime in the keyboard shortcuts file

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On XFCE  go to Applications - gt  Settings - gt  Settings editor -  gt  xfwm4 - gt  easy click disable value   Now you can Insert Cursor with Alt   Click  I ve also disabled L R Workspace  ctrl   alt   L R  settings in Settings - gt  Window manager - gt  Keyboard

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I had problem with ALT key  fix is to change alt click as a Gnome hotkey which clobbers multi-cursor select in VSCode  to super click by running   gsettings set org gnome desktop wm preferences mouse-button-modifier   lt Super gt        Source  http   2buntu com articles 1529 visual-studio-code-comes-to-linux

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Cmd Option Shift      works for me on newest VSCode 1 29 1 and newest OSX High Sierra 10 13 6  Macbook Pro   This adds a vertical line up down on screen  like Option Click Vertical Drag does in Sublime Text   To add multiple cursors at any points in your file  including multiple ones on the same line  do Cmd  or Option  Click anywhere you want  shown in this video  You may also search for text  Cmd F  that repeats multiple times  then press Option Return to add cursors at end of EACH word

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Multi-word  and multi-line  cursors selection in VS Code  Multi-word   Windows   OS X    Ctrl Shift L     Shift L selects all instances of the current highlighted word Ctrl D     D selects the next instance    and the one after that    etc    Multi-line   For multi-line selection  Ctrl Alt Down     Alt Shift Down will extend your selection or cursor position to the next line  Ctrl Right     Right will move to the end of each line  no matter how long  To escape the multi-line selection  hit Esc   See the VS Code keybindings  OS sensitive

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