VS Code Can Do That - Workshop
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  • Introduction
  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor
    • Before you start
    • Switch themes
    • Install a new icon theme
    • Switch fonts
    • Editor tweaks
    • Change default Settings view
    • Easily identify editor instances
  • Exercise 2 - Productivity Tricks
    • Before you start
    • Essential navigation shortcuts
    • Creating HTML with Emmet
    • Styling with Emmet
    • Update image sizes
  • Exercise 3 - Navigation And Refactoring
    • Before you start
    • Moving, Duplicating and Deleting
    • Folding sections
    • Multiple cursors
    • Rename refactor
    • Finding things
    • Extract refactor
  • Exercise 4 - Debugging
    • Before you start
    • Simple debugging
    • Simple launch config
    • Auto attach
    • Debugging browser apps
    • Compound debug configurations
  • Exercise 5 - Docker
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  1. Exercise 3 - Navigation And Refactoring

Multiple cursors

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One of the most powerful things in modern text editors is the concept of multiple cursors. People usually have trouble understanding when you would ever use this feature. In this section we'll see a few places where you might use multiple cursors.

In the "app.js" file, use multiple cursors to rename the currentColor variable to lampColor.

  • Select the first instance of currentColor

  • Notice that the editor highlights other instances of the word in the file

  • Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + L to add a cursor to every instance of the word

  • Change it to "lampColor"

You may have noticed that when you did this, you changed the variable instance and the reference to the HTML element. This would break the application.

Instead of adding a cursor to every instance, sometimes you just want to add it to a few. You can select instances incrementally by pressing Cmd/Ctrl + D.

If you want to skip over an instance, press Cmd/Ctrl + K + D. Use this method to select just the instances of the variable and not the HTML element referenced.