Add more mouse gestures for multi-cursor

[jijojv]

Please Implement Column Mode selection/editing.

Previously requested here
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7761618-implement-column-mode-selection-editing

On Mac preferred shortcut is cmd+option(alt) like Sublime Text does.

[nippur72]

+1

[buzinas]

👍 +1!

[nippur72]

perhaps this requires also support for virtual space

[Tyriar]

The repo readme says file feature requests to vscode/issues

[sharwell]

@ZombieProtectionAgency Has a policy for this been established yet? More often than not, GitHub issues are suitable for everything from bugs to usability problems to feature requests. The benefit of supporting this is users who have never submitted feedback before don't need to understand everything about the project organization in order to provide meaningful commentary. 😄

[ZombieProtectionAgency]

Fair enough, sorry. I was just letting them know there is already a place for feature requests.

[ygorlazaro]

+1

[beattyml1]

+1 here in addition to user voice I don't know which is checked more

[egamma]

Isn't this mostly addressed by multi cursor support and the actions 'insert cursor above/below' (which will be changed for the Dec milestone to 'add cursor above/below).

@alexandrudima fyi

[digitalGaz]

+1

[alexdima]

@jijojv Can you please help me out with some sort of spec regarding what exactly you want...

We already have:

• add cursor below Ctrl+Alt+Down
• add cursor above Ctrl+Alt+Up
• add selection to next selection match Ctrl+D
• move selection to next selection match Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D
• add selections to all selection matches Ctrl+Shift+L
• undo last cursor action Ctrl+U
• Alt + Click adds a new cursor

I understand there might be more to it, I think something with Ctrl+Alt + Click which would add selections in a block-like manner, is that what you mean?

[beattyml1]

It very well maybe addressed by existing features but having it match expecting functionality of almost all other editors and IDEs would probably really help new users and thereby adoption.

[jijojv]

@alexandrudima Its a common feature https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/column_selection.html . I believe VS has it http://joelabrahamsson.com/select-columns-of-text-in-visual-studio/ http://www.visualstudiotipsandtricks.com/blog/2013/04/20/select-and-edit-vertical-blocks/
but is missing from VS Code.

[alexdima]

@jijojv So this is about adding more mouse gestures since we have this:

[jijojv]

@alexandrudima it's not quite the same as it requires 2 separate actions which is error prone e.g if you don't let go but yes in a pinch this 2 steps do get you column mode selection and edits.

⌥⌘↓ then MUST let go , then press ⇧→ to get columns

[glen-84]

The new title made this difficult to find.

With Programmer's Notepad, Atom (with Sublime Style Column Selection), Visual Studio 2015, and obviously Sublime, you can use Alt+Select.

It would make sense to support the same in VS Code.

[Uristocles]

Alt+Select would be fab!
(CTRL-F2 does the trick for what I was just trying to do in any case: kill a bunch of empty columns)

[digitalGaz]

That would be great

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Alt+Select would be fab!

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[ZombieProtectionAgency]

This might be a bit much (or might not even fit this suggestion) but one feature I like in editors is being able to click then Alt-Shift-click to select an arbitrary block.

[masaeedu]

@alexandrudima What is required is the ability to press down Alt + Shift (or some other key combination, I'm not sure what the consensus is), drag select between an initial and final position in the code, and end up with a selection of all characters within the bounding box of these two positions. Obviously this is complicated by things like line wrap, but this is the general idea.

[aloisdg]

add cursor below Ctrl+Alt+Down
add cursor above Ctrl+Alt+Up

It is Ctrl+Shift+Down (or Up) on my Linux (Arch Linux / i3 if it matters)

[Tyriar]

@aloisdg context on why the Linux hotkey is different is that it conflicts with switching workspaces on many Debian-based distros.

[aloisdg]

@Tyriar I think debian-based distro should move the defaut key for window related stuff to the Windows-key (as an OS key), but this argument is for another issue. Thank you for the answer.

[ucirello]

+1

[alexdima]

Comes in March