Some people who move from Visual Studio Code (VSC) to Visual Studio (VS) want to get VS to use the same key bindings as VSC, and there seems to be a way to do so.
I want to do the reverse. My main editor is VS, and there are some files that I want to edit on VSC, so I want the key bindings on VSC to behave like VS.
In particular, I'm interested in the rectangular, or multiline editing capabilities. In VS, I can Alt-Shift-Arrow to create a rectangular selection, which I find very useful:
I want to do the same in VSC. The closest I've found is the "multi-cursor" functionality, which kinda-ish sorta-ish works in a similar way:
However, there are two key differences with how VS works, which make it a bit frustrating to use:
- The key bindings I've found are only for adding cursors. If I select too much, I can't refine my selection -- I have to start from scratch.
- The cursors have to be in valid cursor locations. I can't add arbitrary locations to my selection like in VS. This is particularly useful when adding and removing single-line comments to a large area of code, which may include empty lines.
Is there a way to get VSC to do rectangular selection, just like VS?