Visual Studio Code: Select each occurrence of find

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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.

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8 Answers

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:

  • Ctrl+F --> Open find widegt.

  • Alt+R --> Turn on regex mode.

  • Input search text --> Regex text or normal text.

  • Alt+Enter --> Select all matches.

  • Left arrow --> Ajust cursors.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the ---selected text.)

  • Edit text --> Do what you want.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the -selected text.)

  • Shift+Home --> Select modified text.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the selected text.)

  • Ctrl+C --> Copy selected text.

  • Ctrl+N --> Open a new tab.

  • Ctrl+V --> Paste.

user_38663990

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 ....

user_53543410

For Mach User:

COMMAND + Shift+ L Select all occurrences of the current selection

COMMAND + F2 Select all occurrences of the current word

user_72599860

Ctrl+F2 is what worked for me for VSCode on Windows 10.

While Ctrl+Shift+L just opened some Language selector.

user_78230830
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