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Remove current cursor (multi-cursor) using the keyboard #211724

Open musjj opened 2 months ago

musjj commented 2 months ago

Currently, the only way to remove a cursor in a multi-cursor context is to manually Alt+Click using the mouse.

Combined with editor.action.focusNextCursor and editor.action.focusPreviousCursor, a command to remove the current cursor will allow the user to easily remove any arbitrary cursor with just using the keyboard.

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spartanatreyu commented 4 weeks ago

If you're using multi-cursor with Find Next Occurrence (Ctrl/Cmd + d) then you have this with slightly confusingly named Move Last Selection To Next Find Match (Ctrl/Cmd + k, Ctrl/Cmd + d) and Cursor Undo (Ctrl/Cmd + u).

If you press Ctrl/Cmd + d one too many times, you can press Ctrl/Cmd + u to put your multiple selection back to how it was before you pressed Ctrl/Cmd + d.

If you're pressing Ctrl/Cmd + d but want to undo the selection you just made, make vscode pretend that piece of code doesn't exist and then continue making additional selections, you can press Ctrl/Cmd + k then press Ctrl/Cmd + d.

For example, selecting all chapters except chapter 4:

"course1": {
    "overview": "/online-course",
    "chapter1": "/online-course/chapter-1",    // <- select "chapter"
    "chapter2": "/online-course/chapter-2",    // <- select "chapter"
    "chapter3": "/online-course/chapter-3",    // <- select "chapter"
    "chapter4": "/online-course/chapter-4",    // <- NOT THIS ONE
    "chapter5": "/online-course/chapter-5",    // <- select "chapter"
    "chapter6": "/online-course/chapter-6"     // <- select "chapter"
}
  1. Highlight first occurrence of chapter-
  2. Press Ctrl/Cmd + d to add chapter 2
  3. Press Ctrl/Cmd + d to add chapter 3
  4. Press Ctrl/Cmd + d to add temporarily add chapter 4
  5. Press Ctrl/Cmd + k then Ctrl/Cmd + d to unselect chapter 4 and select chapter 5
  6. Press Ctrl/Cmd + d to add chapter 6

If you're not using Ctrl/Cmd + d to select items but instead using something like Select All Occurrences Of Next Match (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + l) and wanting to deselect specific selections without using a mouse because there's too many matches to Ctrl/Cmd + d them all then this makes more sense.

In terms of the use-case for adding this feature (trying to multi-select many things except for specific cases as determined by the user), the use-case is shared by the issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/212562