Visual Studio Code: Select each occurrence of find
I'm looking for a "select each occurrence of" something I'm trying to find. For example a file has a bunch of text that includes "abc", I type ctrl+f and type abc
. I can either find the first one or the next one, but I would like to "multi-cursor" each one in the file.
I've already found the feature that lets me highlight text and ctrl+d to get the next that matches the selection, but if there's a hundred of these things - well that gets quite tiresome.
Ctrl+Shift+L Select all occurrences of current selection
editor.action.selectHighlights
Ctrl+F2 Select all occurrences of current word
editor.action.changeAll
Please refer for more information here.
Alt+Enter Select all occurrences of find match
editor.action.selectAllMatches
This has the added benefit of working with Regular Expression searches, since selecting occurrences of a word of a selection cannot leverage the Regex functionality.
well , basically the Ctrl+Shift+L will select all occurrences of word in the document
BUT
there is some coool way to selecting them growingly:
if you hit Ctrl+d it will selects the second match , it you hit Ctrl+d again it will match the third one and so on ....
I know this thread is here for a while now, but I think this will be helpful:
This thread on Github talks exactly about it:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/5715
Summary:
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Ctrl+F --> Open find widegt.
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Alt+R --> Turn on regex mode.
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Input search text --> Regex text or normal text.
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Alt+Enter --> Select all matches.
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Left arrow --> Ajust cursors.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the ---selected text.)
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Edit text --> Do what you want.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the -selected text.)
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Shift+Home --> Select modified text.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the selected text.)
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Ctrl+C --> Copy selected text.
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Ctrl+N --> Open a new tab.
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Ctrl+V --> Paste.