Select all occurrences of selected word in VSCode

Question

Are there any trick or extension to select all instances of selected word in visual studio code, to facilitate editing or deleting those instances without search and replace

Answer 1

Select All Occurrences of Find Match editor.action.selectHighlights.

Ctrl+Shift+L

Cmd+Shift+L or Cmd+Ctrl+G on Mac

Answer 2

I needed to extract all the matched search lines (using regex) in a file

1. Ctrl+F Open find. Select regex icon and enter search pattern
2. (optional) Enable select highlights by opening settings and search for selectHighlights (Ctrl+,, selectHighlights)
3. Ctrl+L Select all search items
4. Ctrl+C Copy all selected lines
5. Ctrl+N Open new document
6. Ctrl+V Paste all searched lines.