You can select just the next matching location by using Alt+Shift+. Visual Studio will select all the locations that match the selected text in the current document.

Select the word you want to match and press Alt+Shift+. You can insert a caret at all places where the current word exists. Press Ctrl+Alt and click where you want to add a caret. If you want to edit multiple places that are unaligned, you can use the multi-cursor edit. Press Alt+Shift+Arrow to select the block to edit: Press Alt while selecting the block with the mouse: For instance when you want to add the modifier to multiple properties. This is very useful to apply the same change to multiple lines. You can find these and many more Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcuts here or in VS Code hit ⌘k then ⌘s.Visual Studio allows to edit multiple lines at the same time. Hold down ⌥⇧ and move your mouse to drag a “selection box” of cursors from your current cursor. ⌥⇧ + mouseĭon’t tell your VIM friends, but sometimes the mouse truly is the fastest way. Hit ⌘F to find in file, type in your fancy regex for whatever you’re looking for, and then hit ⌥⏎ to spawn cursors at every match (Pro-tip: ⌘⌥R toggles regex search, and ⌘⌥C toggles case-insensitive search). Sometimes you want to find the next occurrence using regex or a case-insensitive search. Need just a few more cursors? Tap ⌘⌥↑ or ⌘⌥↓ to create cursors above or below the current cursor. Select some text, hit ⌘⇧L, and you’ll have a cursor everywhere that your selected text appears in the file. ⌘⇧L is ⌘D for when you know you want to select every occurrence in the file. ⌘D should solve your multi-cursor needs 80% of the time. Keep hitting ⌘D to find more occurrences and spawn cursors all over your giant files with ease. Select some text and hit ⌘D to create a cursor at the next occurrence of that text. ⌘D ( Control + D on windows) is the G.O.A.T of multi-cursor editing.

If you’re a VSCode user and yet not familiar with the multi-cursor shortcuts, here’s a quick rundown of what you can do: ⌘D / Control + D VSCode’s (don’t worry, Microsoft is cool now) multi-cursor editing features are a life-saver when it comes to editing these files. It’s everywhere: BOSH manifests, Concourse pipelines, CF application manifests, often huge reams reaching tens of thousands of lines. In the world of Cloud Foundry we often jokingly refer to ourselves as yaml developers.

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