How can you create multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code

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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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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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.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/aqR4h.png

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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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/

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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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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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On XFCE, go to Applications -> Settings -> Settings editor - > xfwm4 -> 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 -> Window manager -> Keyboard

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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.

> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"

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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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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" }
]

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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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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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Alt+Click. It works in Windows.

Details: Visual Studio Code Documentation

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In my XFCE (version 4.12), it's in Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> 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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In Visual Studio without mouse: Alt+Shift+{ Arrow }.

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You can do the following per the Selection menu:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6ONT.png

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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Same issue on Ubuntu-MATE, but here you resolve it by:

gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"

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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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https://i.stack.imgur.com/oNkDI.png

Now you can use super instead of alt. Wallah!! Go make multiple cursors by alt + click.

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On windows: CTRL+Click if you are using vscode CTRL+Alt+Click if you are using visual studio

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For Ubuntu Users

ALT + SHIFT + ⬇ / ⬆

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Alt + Click works in OSX. Code Version 1.14.2

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