Multiple select in Visual Studio?

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nawfal picture nawfal · May 11, 2013 · Viewed 94.2k times · Source

Is there a way to select multiple non-adjoining (totally separate) texts in VS? I can do it in MS Word by selecting the texts separately by holding the Ctrl button, like this:

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My version is 11.

Edit: I'm not talking about Alt+Select block selection. Also I would love to see if there exist a technique in Notepad++.

Answer

Gian Marco picture Gian Marco · Aug 25, 2018

Multi cursor edit is natively supported in Visual Studio starting from version 2017 Update 8. The following is an extract of the documentation:

  • Ctrl + Alt + click : Add a secondary caret
  • Ctrl + Alt + double-click : Add a secondary word selection
  • Ctrl + Alt + click + drag : Add a secondary selection
  • Shift + Alt + . : Add the next matching text as a selection
  • Shift + Alt + ; : Add all matching text as selections
  • Shift + Alt + , : Remove last selected occurrence
  • Shift + Alt + / : Skip next matching occurrence
  • Alt + click : Add a box selection
  • Esc or click : Clear all selections

Some of those commands are also available in the Edit menu:

Multiple Carets Menu

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