Visual Studio Code: Select each occurrence of find

Question

I'm looking for a "select each occurrence of" something I'm trying to find. For example a file has a bunch of text that includes "abc", I type ctrl+f and type abc. I can either find the first one or the next one, but I would like to "multi-cursor" each one in the file.

I've already found the feature that lets me highlight text and ctrl+d to get the next that matches the selection, but if there's a hundred of these things - well that gets quite tiresome.

Answer 1

Ctrl+Shift+L Select all occurrences of current selection

editor.action.selectHighlights

Ctrl+F2 Select all occurrences of current word

editor.action.changeAll

Please refer for more information here.

Answer 2

Alt+Enter Select all occurrences of find match

editor.action.selectAllMatches

This has the added benefit of working with Regular Expression searches, since selecting occurrences of a word of a selection cannot leverage the Regex functionality.

Answer 3

well , basically the Ctrl+Shift+L will select all occurrences of word in the document
BUT there is some coool way to selecting them growingly:
if you hit Ctrl+d it will selects the second match , it you hit Ctrl+d again it will match the third one and so on ....

Answer 4

For Mach User:

COMMAND + Shift+ L Select all occurrences of the current selection

COMMAND + F2 Select all occurrences of the current word

Answer 5

I know this thread is here for a while now, but I think this will be helpful:

This thread on Github talks exactly about it:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/5715

Summary:

• Ctrl+F --> Open find widegt.

• Alt+R --> Turn on regex mode.

• Input search text --> Regex text or normal text.

• Alt+Enter --> Select all matches.

• Left arrow --> Ajust cursors.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the ---selected text.)

• Edit text --> Do what you want.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the -selected text.)

• Shift+Home --> Select modified text.(Ignore this step if you don't want to edit the selected text.)

• Ctrl+C --> Copy selected text.

• Ctrl+N --> Open a new tab.

• Ctrl+V --> Paste.

Answer 6

For mac users::

Control + Command + G

^ + ⌘ + G

Answer 7

Ctrl+F2 is what worked for me for VSCode on Windows 10.

While Ctrl+Shift+L just opened some Language selector.

Answer 8

If you are searching in a single file, use simple search using Ctrl+F, then even if you close the search box, simply keep pressing F3 to go to next match and so on. F3 just repeats previous search and selects your next match.