You can check by searching for in the extensions pane, going to File > Preferences > Keymaps ( CTRL+K CTRL+M). This means that for extremely large files, it may be better to script your edits, rather than doing it manually.įor those like that had to use shortcuts like CTRL + SHIFT + L (default binding is Select all occurrences of current selection) to accomplish this, you should check that you don't have a keymap extension installed. What I accidentally discovered though, (and hasn't been mentioned here yet) is that there is a limit of 10k lines in 'cursor edit mode' (there's an open Github feature request to increase it). SHIFT selecting the area you want to column edit, then pressing SHIFT + ALT + i is the most efficient way to handle this. Most of the other keyboard shortcuts mentioned are only useful for a limited number of line. The solution from of using SHIFT + ALT + i worked for me, when I needed to quickly edit ~20k lines in a file. Official VS Code Keyboard shortcut cheat sheets: You can view and edit keyboard shortcuts via:

Or, as Isidor Nikolic points out, you can hold Alt and left click to place cursors arbitrarily. If you experience this issue, you can either disable the Intel/other software hotkeys, or modify the VS Code shortcuts (described below).

Note that third-party software may interfere with these shortcuts, preventing them from working as intended (particularly Intel's HD Graphics software on Windows see comments for more details). On Windows, you hold Ctrl+ Alt while pressing the up ↑ or down ↓ arrow keys to add cursors.

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