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TKirishima
TKirishima

Reputation: 761

Shortcut to copy selected text horizontaly in VisualStudioCode

I don't know if this exists but I would like to have the equivalent of Shift+ Alt + Up|Down which duplicates the line up or down, but horizontally with the text selected.

For example, let's consider this program:

print("Hello world")

If the selected text is Hello world and I do the shortcut it will give something like:

print("Hello worldHello world")

Basically, it would ideally be Shift+ Alt + Right|Left but this shortcut doesn't do that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1052

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 180785

Here is how to do the paste to the right repeatedly. You will need this extension which I wrote Find and Transform:

Make this keybinding:

{
  "key": "shift+alt+right",
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "preCommands": [
      "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
      "cursorRight",
      "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction",
      "cursorHome"  // return cursor to beginning of line
    ],
    "find": "${CLIPBOARD}",
    "restrictFind": "once"  // refind the clipboard text, use only the first find match
  }
},

{
  "key": "shift+alt+left",
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "preCommands": [
      "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
      "cursorLeft",
      "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction",
      "cursorHome"
    ],
    "find": "${CLIPBOARD}",
    "restrictFind": "once"
  }
}

First, select what you want to repeat to the right. Second, trigger either keybinding.

It works by doing a find for the clipboard content (and automatically selecting it) each time after the paste.

The only caveat is it won't work if you have the exact same text as the selected text earlier on the same line.

  • Actually, there is no need for both commands as they produce the same indistinguishable result.

Upvotes: 1

rioV8
rioV8

Reputation: 28633

use extension multi-command

Define the following key bindings

  {
    "key": "shift+alt+left",
    "command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
    "args": { 
        "sequence": [
            "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
            "cursorLeft",
            "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction"
        ]
    }
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+alt+right",
    "command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
    "args": { 
        "sequence": [
            "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction",
            "cursorRight",
            "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction"
        ]
    }
  }

Upvotes: 0

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