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My biggest annoyances with VS Code (and in turn Cursor) is I've never been able to get Find + Multi-Cursor with arrow keys working like I did in Sublime Text I use it a lot to edit lists of text fast I go Cmd+Find "SGD" for example, then Find...

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jorge1 year ago

Ctrl+D to select the next occurance, Ctrl+F2 for all Alt+Click to place a cursor Ctrl+Shift+Arrow keys to put a cursor above/below (or alt if you're in windows) Also Sourcegraph Cody, Continue and others are better than Cursor. Cursor feels like a nanny, I'm not a kid.

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John O'Nolan1 year ago

Highlight the thing you want, press cmd+d to highlight the others. If you need the “highlight all” for large number then just need to change the key bindings in settings and then it works the same as Sublime

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Lukas1 year ago

That’s why I switched to @Neovim as my main IDE/text editor. You named it: Sublime, (Atom), VSCode, Cursor. They come and go. But vi passed the test of time (48 years and counting). Learn vi once and stop learning new text editors. Also a great flex when someone watching your screen 😂

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Sahil Lavingia1 year ago

Command A + Command K + “What you want changed” in English–once AI is instant, will be Pareto superior to this

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dbo1 year ago

Have you tried selecting the pattern and then press cmd+d, it will select the next occurrence. Then press it multiple times to select them all

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@levelsio1 year ago

Ok so I did this and then I can't use the arrow keys?

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Wifi Money Plant1 year ago

Cursor has such a bad UI for such a good tool The code replacement is also whacky No option to just add lines in one click without deleting othes

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Darkos Aurelius1 year ago

Cmd D will select the occurrences one by one, dunno if there’s a “select all”. Works for shorter lists, when it’s a long boi it’s annoying to hold the combo for like a minute.

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Nikita Agafonov1 year ago

here you go

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crown 👑1 year ago

Just install the vim plugin and type :%s/SGD/(insert replacement here).

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