Keyboard shortcut for multiline cursor

[detly]

Multiline editing is currently possible by holding Alt and dragging the mouse to create a multiline cursor. I find this slow and imprecise. Could we also please have a keyboard shortcut to do this? For example, Sublime Text 3 uses Shift+Alt+(up or down arrows). I don't know what's possible with a browser based notebook though.

This is mentioned in a comment on issue #2527 but not responded to.

[joshuadanpeterson]

Has any work been done on this?

[mertyertugrul]

Why there is no shortcut for this?

[jsr-p]

bump

[vaknin]

That would be incredibly useful!

[kirilzilla]

https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/2527 its CMD+Click on macOS.

[laughingrice]

2527 its CMD+Click on macOS.

comment was for a keyboard shortcut, not a mouse shortcut

[nickmccullum]

Has there been any progress on this?

[aldanor]

If you need a multiline cursor for 20 lines, clicking to set up precise locations takes longer than not using the multiline cursor at all. Would it be possible to have a keyboard shortcut for it?

[rsayn]

Bumping this, it's a must-have feature in my opinion. Pressing Alt + up/down arrow to multiline edit is something I'm always lacking when writing code in Jupyter notebooks. As a developer I often find myself using Google Colab for smaller tasks just because of their awesome code editor and auto-completion. I feel that the two features that vanilla notebooks are missing right now are developer-level key bindings like the one proposed here, and an IntelliSense-like autocompletion similar to the ones in VS Code and Colab.

[tartakovsky]

I'll join the party. Missing this feature a lot, one of my most-used features in Jetbrains IDEs.

Note: I specifically mean the ability to create several cursors using only keyboard, e.g. CMD+ALT+Up/Down, without using the mouse.

[matuusu]

If you need a multiline cursor for 20 lines, clicking to set up precise locations takes longer than not using the multiline cursor at all. Would it be possible to have a keyboard shortcut for it?

I know this is not a solution to keyboard shortcut request, but meanwhile it is hopefully implemented, you can help yourself by using ctrl+alt and drag click to select multiple lines using mouse

[rishavtraining]

I'm getting a separate cursor for each cell. After execution of one cell the cursor does not move to other and when I click in the next cell the cursor appears in previous and present both . Please help me fixing this.

[farhan-naqvi]

I'm getting a separate cursor for each cell. After execution of one cell the cursor does not move to other and when I click in the next cell the cursor appears in previous and present both . Please help me fixing this.

Even I am getting this error. I am not able to find any solution to it.

[rishavtraining]

Farhan change the default browser of your jupyter notebook and the issue will be gone. Check out YouTube videos to change the browser. Hope this helps

[farhan-naqvi]

Farhan change the default browser of your jupyter notebook and the issue will be gone. Check out YouTube videos to change the browser. Hope this helps

Hey, I restored my factory settings of chrome and it worked. Anyways thanks a lot for your answer.

[Zsailer]

Thanks @detly.

This is solved in JupyterLab and will be solved in the future Notebook v7 release.

For more information about this new release, checkout the Notebook v7 Enhancement Proposal.

[GabeChurch]

FYI I found a really annoying issue around multiline-select where the only solution seems to be changing "CodeJump" default setting to use "control" instead of "alt". Only once this has been changed does multiline select work (for me).