Multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code [closed]

Answer 1

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 ;)

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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 > Preferences > 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" }
]

Answer 4

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 "<Super>"   

Source: http://2buntu.com/articles/1529/visual-studio-code-comes-to-linux/

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.