Consider using the same keyboard shortcuts for multiline editing as VSCode or Atom

[lensbart]

A good day to all caretakers of this project!

Much to my delight, Caret allows users to edit multiple lines of text at the same time via the following shortcuts on macOS:

• Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Up/Down to vertically extend the selection with neighbouring lines
• Fn + Option (Alt) + Click to arbitrarily add insertion points

There doesn’t seem to be a way to put an insertion point on all lines between two clicks, and the above shortcuts differ from Atom and VSCode (and, presumably, other editors).

This suggestion would be an improvement in ease-of-use, and would require less mental overhead for infrequently used shortcuts.

Thanks in advance for your consideration!

macOS Mojave version 10.14 (keyboard layout: AZERTY, Belgian) Caret Beta version 4.0.0-rc21 (4.0.0-rc21)

[erusev]

Hi and good day to you too :)

The ⌃ ⇧ arrow shortcut comes from Sublime Text, but we're working on a new release where the defaults will match the shortcuts of Monaco, which is the editor that VSCode uses so it'll be the same shortcut as in VSC.

There doesn’t seem to be a way to put an insertion point on all lines between two clicks.

I'm not sure I understand this. What's the way to do that in VSCode?

Thanks so much!

[lensbart]

[erusev]

I think we can implement that.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[erusev]

Meanwhile, you can do ⌘⌥ + drag to select multiple lines w/ mouse.