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Multiple Carets Booster

Multiple Carets Booster

Václav Nádraský

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753 installs
| (6) | Free
Adds new commands making multiple carets even more useful feature. Hooks onto a paste command and splits clipboard lines among corresponding multiple carets.
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Use CTRL+C and CTRL+V with multiple carets as expected

Lets say you have multiple carets with a selection. Then you will copy your selection into clibboard (CTRL+C). Then you will move your carets somewhere else and paste copied text (CTRL+V). Without this extension Visual Studio pastes all lines of selection at every caret position. Madness... With this extension a paste command does exactly what you would have expected: Pastes corresponding copies of selections to corresponding caret positions.

Copy and Paste example

Create new multiple carets even without matching selections

Multiple carets can be created through matching some unique same text among lines. Sometimes there is just no same and/or unique text and that is when two new commands can come in handy. Just place your caret somewhere and then press SHIFT+ALT+'L' to place a new multiple caret on a next line. Or press SHIFT+ALT+'K' to remove last multiple caret. Just as almost the same as with standard "next-matching" aproach with SHIFT+ALT+'<' or '>' keyboard shortcuts.

Add new caret example

Create number or character sequences out of selections

Just make multiple caret selection anywhere and pres SHIFT+ALT+S to replace all selections with a number/character sequence based on a value in the first selection.

Sequence example

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