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Moseleyi
Moseleyi

Reputation: 2859

VSCode - multiline selection - deselecting a line

Let's say I have these lines:

key1 value1
key2 value2
key3 value3
key4 value4

I click just before key hold CTRL + ALT and press arrow down few times. Now my cursor is at the beginning of both lines:

|key1 value1
|key2 value2
|key3 value3
|key4 value4

Is there a keyboard-only way to deselect a particular line? I thought it could be CTRL+ALT+SHIFT and then arrow up but that changes the selection based on the inital cursor (basically selects key1 line and any line above if it exists.

What I want to achieve is to be able to go back to:

|key1 value1
|key2 value2
|key3 value3
key4 value4

But only using keyboard. Sometimes when selecting, I select one extra line - with a mouse it's sometimes a lot of clicking to get to the right position.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 931

Answers (1)

henry groves
henry groves

Reputation: 887

CTRL+U will undo the last cursor operation.

|key1 value1
|key2 value2
|key3 value3
|key4 value4

CTRL+U

|key1 value1
|key2 value2
|key3 value3
key4 value4

The only way to arbitrarily remove cursors is by ALT+L-Click on the location of the cursor you would like to remove.

Upvotes: 2

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