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nazekami59
nazekami59

Reputation: 420

Is there a way to disable selection highlighting in VS Code?

Is there a way to disable this multi selecting in VS Code?

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Upvotes: 5

Views: 4923

Answers (1)

Gino Mempin
Gino Mempin

Reputation: 29546

There are 3 settings you can configure to disable this.

1. Selection Highlight

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"editor.selectionHighlight": false,

When you selected "open" (as in drag your cursor around the word), it also highlights all the "open"'s in the same file. You can disable this behavior from the settings UI or from the JSON file.

2. Occurences Highlight

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"editor.occurrencesHighlight": false

This is supposed to prevent selecting all occurrences of a word when you click on it (i.e. when you click on "open", it should not highlight all the other "open"'s).

But, it can be a bit unreliable. It depends on the language and whether you have language-specific extensions installed that does not override it. See the discussion on it here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5351

3. Selection Highlight Background

This last way is a bit of brute-force solution. You can change the color of the selection highlight to be transparent. (Technically, it would still be highlighted but you just won't see it.)

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "editor.selectionHighlightBackground": "#00000000",
}

Upvotes: 11

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