How do I get a cursor on every line in vscode

Solution 1:

The command Selection / Add Cursors to Line Ends altshifti will put a cursor on every line in the current selection. (For mac use optshifti)

Tip: You can pull up the keyboard shortcut reference sheet with ctrlk,ctrls (as in, those two keyboard combos in sequence). (For mac use cmdk,cmds)

Solution 2:

Hold Alt+Shift and select the block. Then press End or Right button. You get selected individual lines.

I use version VSCode 1.5.3 in Windows.

Solution 3:

Hold Alt+Shift+i
Hold Home (fn+-> Mac) for right-most or End for left most(fn+<- Mac)

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Solution 4:

This feature is actually called split selection into lines in many editors.

Sublime Text uses the default keybinding, CTRLSHIFT L
VSCode uses ALTSHIFTI
For Atom you actually need to edit your keymap to something like this

'.platform-win32 .editor, .platform-linux .editor':
  'ctrl-shift-L': 'editor:split-selections-into-lines'

Solution 5:

Real Lines vs Display Lines

First we have to understand the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines to completely understand the answer of the question.

When Word Wrap is enabled, each line of text that exceeds the width of the window will display as wrapped. As a result, a single line in the file may be represented by multiple lines on the display.

The easiest way to tell the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines is by looking at the line number in the left margin of the text editor. Lines that begin with a number correspond to the real lines, which may span one or more display lines. Each time a line is wrapped to fit inside the window, it begins without a line number.

Cursor At the Beginning of each Display Lines:

display lines

Cursor At the Beginning of each Real Lines:

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Answer to the Question

Now that we know the difference between Display Lines and Real Lines, we can now properly answer the actual question.

Hold AltShift and select the text block.

Press Home to put cursor on the beginning of every Display Line.

Press End to put cursor on the end of every Display Line.

Press HomeHome (Home twice) to put cursor on the beginning of every Real Line.

Press EndEnd (End twice) to put cursor on the end of every Real Line.

Please understand that AltShiftI put cursor on the end of every Real Line.