Select all occurrences of selected word in VSCode

What if you want to select just a few?

No problem, first:

  1. Ctrl+F find the letters by typing them
  2. ESC to quit searching
    (you need to do this even when using Ctrl+Shift+L to select all occurences)

OR

  1. just select those letters with your mouse or keyboard (Shift+arrows)

Now that the mouse cursor is blinking on your first selection, using a few more Key Bindings (thanks for the ref j08691) you may:

  • Ctrl+D select (add) the next occurrence
  • Ctrl+K+Ctrl+D skip the current/latest occurrence and add the next occurrence
  • Ctrl+U undo the latest cursor operation

According to Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code there's:

Ctrl+Shift+L to select all occurrences of current selection

and

Ctrl+F2 to select all occurrences of current word

You can view the currently active keyboard shortcuts in VS Code in the Command Palette (View -> Command Palette) or in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor (File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts).


Select All Occurrences of Find Match editor.action.selectHighlights.

Ctrl+Shift+L

Cmd+Shift+L or Cmd+Ctrl+G on Mac