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

What differs this from the built-in multi-edit of VS 2019?

Feature Select Next Occurrence Visual Studio
Multiple cursors Yes Yes
Can undo cursor Yes Yes
Can select all occurrences Yes Yes
Can skip occurrence Yes Yes
Can select backwards/up Yes No
Can add caret above/below Yes No
Can add caret by mouse Yes No
Can convert selection to carets Yes No
Can search both case insensitive and exact Yes No, only exact
Multi copy/paste across files and to external programs Yes No
Supports VS 2019 Yes Yes
Supports VS 2017 Yes From v15.8
Supports VS 2015 Yes No
Multi-cursor IntelliSense No No

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
  • Add carets by mouse-clicking, press ALT and click to add a new caret or to remove caret/selection at clicked position
  • Copy/paste multiple selections, also 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)
  • Options-dialog: Add cursors by mouse-clicking - true by default
  • Options-dialog: Keep caret on first entry - false by default, activates behaviour to keep caret on first entry when pressing escape

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