Select Next Occurrence

Thomas Welén

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Selects the next occurrence of the current selection and adds multiple cursors for editing.

Select Next Occurrence

This extension makes it possible to select multiple occurrences of a selected text for simultaneous editing with multiple cursors. Provides the most common multi-editing features.

Aims to replicate the multi-editing features of Sublime Text/Visual Studio Code for faster coding.

Changelog

Features

  • Select next occurrence of current selection
  • Select next exact occurrence (overrides Find-dialog)
  • Select previous occurrence
  • Select previous exact occurrence (overrides Find-dialog)
  • Select all occurrences
  • Convert a selection into multiple cursors
  • Skip occurrence
  • Undo occurrence
  • Add caret above/below
  • Use multiple carets to edit
  • Alt-Click to add caret
  • Multiple copy/paste across files and to external programs

Select Next Occurrence

Options

  • Toggle case-sensitive search by using the "Match case" setting from the find-dialog (Ctrl+F)
  • Toggle "Match whole word" search by using the "Match whole word" setting from the find-dialog (Ctrl+F)
  • Deactivate Alt-Clicking to add carets in options-dialog

Select Next Occurrence Options dialog

Key-bindings

Go to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and search for these command names to edit at your choice. Make sure the Use new shortcut in is set to: Text Editor

Command (prefix SelectNextOccurrence.) Recommendation
SelectNextOccurrence Ctrl+D
SelectNextExactOccurrence
SelectPreviousOccurrence Ctrl+E
SelectPreviousExactOccurrence
SelectAllOccurrences Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A
SkipOccurrence Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D
UndoOccurrence Ctrl+U
AddCaretAbove Ctrl+Alt+Up
AddCaretBelow Ctrl+Alt+Down
ConvertSelectionToMultipleCursors Ctrl+Shift+I or Alt+Shift+I (vscode))

Select Next Occurrence Keyboard bindings

Troubleshooting

  • Nothing happens when pressing assigned keys

Check that the key-bindings are correct and that the Use new shortcut in is set to: Text Editor.

  • Nothing happens when ALT + left-clicking mouse button to add new caret, multiple edits are unresponsive

There is a possibility that other plugins use this functionality too, and a conflict occurs. Please check for other installed plugins with this feature and try to disable.

  • Copy/cut multiple occurrences doesnt work as expected

There is a conflict with the extension Copy As Html, if you have this enabled, try to disable it and see if this helps.



Donations

This is absolutely 100% free, a review or a Github star is much appreciated. If you still would like to support me for whatever reason, I'd accept a donation at https://www.paypal.me/thomaswelen

Happy coding