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Reputation: 10929

Shortcut to select a line of code in Android Studio

Is there a short cut to select one line of code in android studio?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 17598

Answers (6)

Jordi
Jordi

Reputation: 2537

In Android Studio Classic UI, you can select a line by clicking the line number on the left margin of the editor. You can select multiple lines by clicking and dragging over the numbers.

In New UI, clicking the line number creates a breakpoint by default. The same functionality as the Classic UI can be achieved by following this procedure:

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+A
  2. Type Breakpoints Over Line Numbers
  3. Disable

As described in https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/new-ui.html#gutter.

After applying this configuration, you can create a breakpoint by clicking in the empty area just to the right of the line numbers.

As suggested in the comments, triple click also selects the whole line.

Upvotes: 1

Divins Mathew
Divins Mathew

Reputation: 3176

Shift+Home or Shift+End will select all the text from the current caret position to the beginning or end of the current line. (Cmd+Shift+Left or Cmd+Shift+Right on mac). You can also triple-click on the required line to select it wholly. This can also be achieved by clicking on the line number.

If you want to copy/cut an entire line then Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X after placing the caret on the required line will do.

They have more useful shortcuts here.

Upvotes: 31

Chad Bingham
Chad Bingham

Reputation: 33856

There is Command + C that will copy the entire line. But if you are like me and you don't want to pollute your clipboard history with line selections, you can try this solution. (Command + Shift + V to view clipboard history)

  1. Go to Android Studio Preferences
  2. Go to Keymap
  3. Expand Editor Actions
  4. Scroll down to Select Line at Caret
  5. Assign any key command you want to it. I used Command + L, but it is up to you.

Upvotes: 10

Abdullah Raza
Abdullah Raza

Reputation: 600

For Windows:

  1. Shift + End (from cursor to line end)
  2. Shift + Home (from cursor to line start)
  3. Triple click on a line

Upvotes: 4

Ali Nem
Ali Nem

Reputation: 5550

You might also use CTRL + W several times.

Upvotes: 23

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521457

Try using CTRL + C

This should select and copy the entire current line. Note that it won't work if you already have some text selected. In that case, CTRL + C would behave as usual, copying the text selected only.

I should note that I based my answer on that Android Studio is built off the IntelliJ platform, and so most shortcut keys are probably the same between the two.

Reference: Select current line in intellij

Upvotes: 6

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