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Updated on April 21, 2018 in #dev-environment

Insert Multiple Cursors at the Start of Every Line with VSCode

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Who would have thought, after 22 years of using a keyboard I learned a new trick by multi-tapping the Home key.

The TL;DR is:
  • Press CTRL + A to select all of the text
  • Press SHIFT + ALT + I to insert multiple cursors at the end of each line
  • Press Home twice to jump to the start of every line

That’s it. There’s no Visual Studio Code extensions needed!

Here’s a demo video:

It’s also worth mentioning that you can do this on a subset of text of your choosing. It’s controlled by whatever you have selected, so if you only select 3 lines (instead of pressing CTRL + A), it will insert the cursors at the start of those 3 lines.

By the way, if you’re wondering which VSCode extensions I use, I did a full write up here.

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