More multiple cursor magic 🪄

How to add a cursor to every line #shorts

[@TomDoesTech]

The VSCode team thinks of so many thing I didn't even know I needed!

[@songokussj4cz]

They do. But in this exact example, this has been there for many, many years. And in Sublime Text years before that. I'm using it for about 8 years now. ST, now VSC. I don't undermine this technique, it's awesome. It's just not new at all. Three more shortcuts I do everyday are "CopyLineDown CTRL+SHIFT+D", AddSelectionToNextFindMatch CTRL+D" and "MoveLineDown/Up CTRL+SHIFT+DownArrow/UpArrow"

[@sohn7767]

@@songokussj4cz and in has been in vi/vim before most of us have been born

[@bowiemtl]

@@songokussj4cz nobody cares if it’s new or not, just that they are introduced to it

[@nevoyu]

Vim has had this for years before vscode thought of it

[@TomDoesTech]

@@nevoyu And the VSCode team bought it to VSCode.

[@TinyTiniaMan]

VsVim users be like : "Look what they do to mimic a fraction of our power"

[@____-pb1lg]

What's VsVim ?

[@MrEo89]

VsVim? Plz. Just go straight to neovim and never look back.

[@animeguywithexistentialcri5084]

Haha yeah bro... $GA",^GI" Done.

[@notme9801]

@@animeguywithexistentialcri5084 hmm I'll try that. I'm used to doing A,uggVG:norm!.

[@animeguywithexistentialcri5084]

@@notme9801hmm... I tried your command strike but I don't get it. I read it like this: -> A = insert mode at end of line -> then hit , (comma) -> = go to normal mode -> ugg = undo and then go to the first line -> VG = visual line mode and go to end of file -> :norm!. (I don't understand this) and then (enter) But it doesn't seem to change anything tho... I'd like to look up for the 'norm' command after this.

[@rahulr9539]

This project was a huge relief as wordle only allows one game per day. And thank you for mentioning me. ☺

[@SahilP2648]

I know this video was meant to show off a VSCode feature, but in reality a simple text or CSV file would have been enough to load the list from disk into an array. In python (and similarly JS) it would take no more than 10 lines I think.

[@rahulr9539]

@@SahilP2648 Loading file is not what's taking all those lines. It is the logic and ui of the game. in python to load json you need 3 lines including import json, with open line, json.load line. In JS it is one line, const array = require('words.json'); for reading from txt in python, 3 lines - with open, file.read, and one line for converting the data to list. And in python reading csv with DictReader or anything else is even worse. Python is easy does not mean other programming languages are not easy to code.

[@SahilP2648]

@@rahulr9539 yeah I know. I am a developer too lol.

[@rahulr9539]

@@SahilP2648 😅

[@wlockuz4467]

@@rahulr9539 where can I find your video?

[@Jakob7539511]

When i need to do this, i usually do a Find+Replace the with ", \t". The cursor strategy might be faster, though. :)

[@shichiha6138]

Haha, I actually do the same thing!

[@vibaked]

You can also use the regex "end of line" operator in your find replace, which is the dollar sign. Replace $ with ", for this example

[@kadensharpin2156]

@@vibaked and don't forget ^ for the start of the line!

[@SirCamWA]

Regex for everything

[@MewKnows]

I just make a text file with the words separated by a " " and read it and split by " " lol

[@wile9763]

Vim version: Press C-v to select columns. Then press I to insert in each column. Or you could just use a Vim macro.

[@Plorpoise]

I'd use a macro just so I can watch it go through and add all of them. So satisfying :)

[@Elwon20]

:norm was made for this

[@imseagull]

Why do it the hard way when you can write a :g command. Ez pz.

[@Gurj101]

@@Plorpoise yup that is fun

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Lol. I've just been replacing with ", " ... Regex style

[@Jelte_Dijkmans]

Yeah waaaaaaaay easier

[@snailedlt]

Faster and more precise way: 1. Select all -> Ctrl + shift + a 2. Cursor at end of each line -> alt + shift + i 3. Add quote and comma -> ', 4. Move cursor to beginning of each line -> home 5. Add quote -> '

[@savantshuia]

NeoVim/Vim users: "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power"

[@user-fm7uq4fb3f]

This is the main reason I fell in love with sublime text years ago. I think I do more multi cursor editing to format things like this than anything else

[@GottZ]

and here I'm sitting just using the neovim extension for this..

[@imjulianeral]

A few weeks ago I converted a CSV file to an INSERT SQL statement with vscode, these features are a lifesaver

[@VezWay007]

I would've used find & replace " /n" with " ,/n" It's great to see that this is an actual "problem" that other people solves as well and not something stupid I do to myself.

[@temmie3325]

Isn't it easier just to store a file containing all of those and then just read it and then pick a random word from line array?

[@JannisAdmek]

I love it. What also works is to replace ^ (regex) with " and $ with ",

[@nicholasfinch4087]

This is the better way to go. VScode has an upper limit on multiple cursors.

[@mikejankowiak5434]

Sure that fine and all that's pretty specific. You could just use the replace functionality and use regex to look for every new line that doesn't contain a bracket, then add a comma

[@farhanaditya2647]

That's what I'd do too.

[@tinmancode]

Exactly

[@Wylie288]

that requires knowing regex, pff, who knows that?

[@happywednesday6741]

My way is better

[@utilyre]

Fun fact: vim has had this feature (in an easier way) since many years ago

[@Temax6]

Lol it's hilarious watching videos like these

[@farhanaditya2647]

how?

[@Sw3d15h_F1s4]

this isn't a new feature in vscode either

[@nathanhedglin931]

Yup.

[@KayOScode]

@@farhanaditya2647 visual mode lets you create a multiline cursor in the same way and macros are even more powerful allowing you to do the same thing without relying on word length being the same

[@dgpsf]

I love VSC’s multiple cursors. you could also use Ruby and just wrap a %w() around the whitespace delimited strings :)

[@happywednesday6741]

What I do is put the words without a quote in a csv and then upload this to a sql server and then I write a quick Django app with a list template and just simply copy and paste the results of that once running the app, and then I write all the words out one by one and add quotes to each as I do 👍🏻

[@gustavovasconcelos9857]

I use this feature a lot, it's incredibly helpful

[@GavHern]

if your keyboard has one, i recomend using the "home" button instead of using control arrow left. it will place you at the start of each line which is helpful if your list has some mutli-word lines

[@IainSimmons]

I think the latest version of macOS broke this, home and end go to the start and end of the entire text block, respectively

[@dawid0]

@@IainSimmons on mac, you use command+arrow to go to the line start/end, and option+arrow to jump by words

[@IainSimmons]

@@dawid0 yup, I know. But thanks for sharing!

[@robertpietraru1939]

Or use vim and press 0 or ^

[@GavHern]

@@robertpietraru1939 vim and multi cursors has always been an issue for me

[@iapplethis]

I use multicursors everyday, had colleagues that used to message me some files to do some multicursors on 😂

[@lemonsavery]

This is such a life saver in data formatting

[@elyipierre2284]

I wish I new this a few days ago while working on select options 😢

[@pmxi]

I had this exact same situation earlier, I was using vim keybindings so what I did was create to macro to do this, it is quite simple. It was also helpful in allowing me to lowercase all the text.

[@aidanflynn5392]

True! Although if you don't want to memorize another shortcut, just: 1. Select the newline at the end of the line 2. CMD+D until all lines are selected 3. Profit

[@fred7615]

I had to go into their source code to get that lost for my clone to, I did it in python :)

[@floopyy_]

VSCode really pulling off the secret mortal kombat combos here

[@rowan404]

I would’ve done ctrl+f and then replace every “ “ with “‘,“ but, honestly, this seems cleaner and more efficient!

[@aurinator]

Keyboard. Efficiency. FTW.

[@sanyisasha]

What I usually do is moving the items to the left, tab, and then selecting tabs. But the last method is interesting

[@demeter1793]

Ctrl+H, match ( \t), replace (, \t) I'm just using the parentheses for clarity, but it also wouldn't matter for the matching if you use regex.

[@aayushanand8285]

I've been using this technique for quite a while now...really helpful.. Love it

[@Cansyrian]

Yesssssss yesssssss thank youuuuu! I thought there was no way to do this ! I really needed to use multiple cursors so many times to organize and edit code ! But it used to take a lot of time ! Now it will take less so thank u!

[@kishiue]

You can also wrap the selected text in quotes by just having the text selected and inputing ' or ".

[@Radi0actvChickn]

That would just put quotes around the entire thing, not each line

[@PanDiaxik]

I prefer the way multiple cursors work in sublime text

[@johndon3782]

Replace > $ for start of lines, ^ for end

[@Crunchiest]

I needed this, especially to adding quotes and commas to each JSON string. Finally something that helps. Thank you, VSCode Team.

[@juliasmith1182]

Can also select the carriage return/line feed character. Beginning of line, shift+back arrow, select all 👍

[@rafaelborgesbatista2961]

Nice tip! I was needing that a couple of days ago and I did it the slow way

[@d4v1dduart38]

Dude I always found your videos very useful thank you for your content

[@csharpcoffee]

My personal way is to use Notepad++'s search and replace feature in extended or regex mode (regex only for edge cases and difficult tasks). With extended mode, you can do something like Find: Replace with: " Find: Replace with: ", And voila

[@joshuaw1315]

API calls: Am I a joke to you?

[@SirusStarTV]

There's a lot of string manipulation web tools in "browserling tools", it's nice

[@grantpeterson2524]

Lmao, used this for the EXACT same use case when making a Wordle bot about a month ago to add commas

[@Wynell]

this is also exactly a very good use case for vim's macros

[@xst9880]

SSMS has this super handy feature 👍

[@adamdavislee]

I can't resist the temptation to plug "Kakoune" here! 😄. The following keys would do the trick: % => Select all => Split on lines b => Select previous word i" => Insert quote a" => Append quote % => Select all i[ => Insert bracket a] => Append bracket

[@dadestor]

I usually just enter a python interpreter and write a list comprehension for this kind of stuff lmao

[@iconsworld9]

Big fan of visual studio keep up the awesomeness

[@kphk3428]

SublimeText : select all words, Ctrl+Shift+L (to select lines individually), quote, right, comma, space, Suppr.

[@peters.social]

that is an awesome feature after having a cursor at each word, why didn't you select the words and place quotes around them, instead of ctrl+left-ing your way to the front to place the second quote?

[@skaramicke]

That “space” after each word was probably the newline character and not a space.

[@MrDicius933]

In sublime you can regex replace $(end of line) for commas.

[@DarkSolidity]

Vim users: let me know when something interesting happens...

[@goblinslayer5404]

if u dont know the shortcuts and cant find them, u can just put the words in a text file, and make a loop that updates each line to add the commas

[@AssFaceNFT]

Bloody algorithm always sends you in the right direction 😂🙏🌹

[@armadasilque8307]

Oh my god. Oooooh my god. The amOUNT of times I've had to do this manually. Thanks you, god bless you

[@askp7104]

Glad I found this when I just started learning

[@PomPiDoum]

Thanks !

[@pessimistic5579]

Multiple cursors are so useful to learn, i was really annoyed of using regex before i fully learnt this feature

[@chongcaleb1131]

I usually use alt + shift magic with Home and End button, it would be more straight forward 😂

[@nftsolboi8321]

I knew about alt+shift+i, but what I needed to know was ctrl+shift+L, so this video was still very helpful for me 😂

[@cedric1731]

I don't know why but I always do some Python magic in cases like this. ^^

[@RS-lh4gx]

***For more specific selections use Middle mouse!!!!!! I use that all the time

[@sagshah10]

I would just use regex find and replace, but you do you mate 😁

[@andrewhamel1]

This is exactly what I did making MY world clone. I actually coded the entire thing in something other than VSCODE but realized I needed this functionality so I switched for the remainder of the project 🤣

[@sharp_iq6742]

Find and replace with a small regex with group substitution is faster than all those key binds

[@HeyItsMeDave]

Time to learn the vim keybindings to do this and much more, easily.

[@Alec9821]

I did a similar thing but it had all words in the dictionary. I had them stored in a database to make the word validation times quicker. Couldn’t really think of a better way. The JS made a XHR to a php API that communicates with the dB.

[@rejul008]

I didn't know about it.. thanks for the info

[@juni6020]

nice i usually shift alt drag but this is nice

[@That_Guy_You_Know]

Instead of arrowing back to the start of the line you can press the home key to do that instantly.

[@m77mo65]

I was looking for this ages ago. I even had to built java program to do this. I'm grateful for this one now.

[@athief]

Cool and well-know VSCode feature, but I mean you could as well read the file from the URL directly, and save so many lines of code.

[@robertchavana3961]

I was ecstatic when i found that feature in atom.

[@isaacfink123]

Weird I was just building a wordle clone and used this, opened youtube and it was the first suggestion in shorts

[@wildcatgerry]

I use this all the time. Select all ctrl+a, add cursor to every line ctrl+shift+L,end.

[@bhumit070]

for me vim macros are life saver for these kind of things

[@_Sizzin]

I use Shift+Midde Mouse Button to select all that I want. But that's a nice way as well.

[@lonlyman221]

For inserting the commas after you have a cursor at the end of every word just “ shift-home ” : to select from the cursor to the beginning of each line line “ “ “ : Press the quote key once to make every line a string “ , “ : Press comma key once to put comma at the end of the lines … but this will also select the [ ] will it not? Will have to give that a test!! Thanks for the awesome video!!!

[@dalgo_na]

Why didn't I know of this when I needed this 😔😔

[@Rizzarip]

My man is higher than a rocket ship 🤣🤣🤣. His eyes are like glazed donuts

[@mastershooter64]

I just put that thing in a string and use a for loop to add commas and print it to the console and i copy paste that into an array lol

[@EricLS]

Ohhhhh wow. Now I know how I’m going to clean up the lists of users needing access to various things I get from user tickets in my IT job.

[@nikhilhukkerikar6753]

Another approach I usually use first put double quotes at the start then replace using regex match with “, all done same results

[@jt099]

One step faster it’s just to select all the words and click your “ button, this will automatically put quotes on both sides.

[@abrams11]

This is so useful

[@dibbyo456]

I needed this a week ago.

[@davidem3283]

I've always put the whole thing in a pair of double quotes, used .replace(), console.logged and copied the result. This may take longer, but allow you to do virtually anything with the string and you don't have to remember any shortcut, just JavaScript syntax (or whatever your favourite programming language is)

[@casualoutlaw540]

...or you can just use the built in find and replace feature

[@dbaker280]

damn i’ve been doing this with concats in excel. so inefficient!

[@jot3877]

I do this everytime I receive a CSV file, and need to wrap it with quotes to feed it into node.js or SQL

[@liamtolkkinen5025]

It might have just been easier to read from the file and auto generate an array using the values of the file

[@BigCreep]

ctrl d " would have put quotes around each word selected

[@caedenw]

honestly though this should just be a file you load and split by new lines to build an array. a lot of times if you need a feature for something as big as this, you should be coding in a different way instead.

[@mixup2216]

I didn’t know you could do this in vscode. I would have put it in notepad++ and used the advanced replace to replace

[@jayztan6466]

Hate to say this but took me a while to learn this in VS when changing from sublime

[@umeshthakre416]

I think if you just save this using prettier extension it will add comas

[@kawu42]

Feel like an idiot that I've made this with regex before. Thank you for this time saving tip. :)

[@stefanm578]

you also have ctrl f replace all

[@happywednesday6741]

So you should

[@brucebruce4175]

But this will only work with same length words. What if you have a list of words of varying lengths

[@ambi488]

Thankssss