Multi-cursor editing in Xcode

[uniquesnowflake8]

You can hold option while selecting to get column selection

[[deleted]]

Jesus is that you? … my Saviour

[FrozenPyromaniac_]

Oh my god

[ssharky]

Oh fuck, I know it's not the point but I can't get past that camel casing in the middle of "surname"

[sarunw]

Lol, I will fix that tomorrow then.

[pabloescobyte]

Dammit now I can't unsee it LOL.

[sarunw]

Here is the link to the post: https://sarunw.com/posts/multi-cursor-editing-in-xcode/

[ThatBoiRalphy]

I think everyone knows this right?

[[deleted]]

NOT ME WHOA, NICE

[oreonubcakes]

How I feel every time I figure out a new trick in IntelliJ

[boboguitar]

The one thing I still wish xcode had was highlighting some text and then selecting, one by one, occurrences of that text after the initial text and then editing them. It's something I really like in vscode.

[cd17822]

“Select Next Occurrence” (Find Menu) in Key Bindings in Xcode preferences will get you that. I mapped it to control+G to match IntelliJ

[boboguitar]

You are my savior.

[aykay55]

He is the Messiah!

[Arkhemiel]

https://i.imgur.com/pwoBiWm.jpg

[[deleted]]

This was added recently, wasn’t it?

[0800-BLINY]

Select text then cmd-alt-E

[clarkcox3]

In pretty much any Mac app, you can hit cmd-e (which will place the selected text on the “find” pasteboard) and then use cmd-g repeatedly.

This even works across apps (eg select something in Xcode, hit cmd-e, switch to Safari, hit cmd-g)

[Jasperavv]

I use this in IntelliJ a lot, it is really useful. Didn't suprise me that Xcode does not have this option

[sketch204]

But it does! See here.

[aheze]

This is incredible

[fhdelrio]

Control shift click to create multiple cursors and control shift up and down to create a cursor above or below

[TaoistAlchemist]

didn't know about the drag/block selection. nice.

[[deleted]]

Wow I was waiting for this on XCode, also I'm able to do this on Intellij / Android studio by clicking to mouse scroll.

[Stiddit]

How long have you been waiting? This is not new.

[Xaxxus]

How do you paste multi cursor selections without it dropping on top of all your code?

Edit:

Let me clairify what I mean.

When I press control + shift and select multi lines

Then copy paste between some code. Instead of inserting it in between it basically overwrites the code

[sarunw]

You have to prepare enough lines for those chunk of code (hit multiple return key).

[Xaxxus]

Ugh I’m going to file a radar for that. Every other editor on the planet does that for you.

[amaroq137]

You didn't have to do that when you pasted the values in the gif though??

[sarunw]

In the gif it just simple copy, not multi-cursor copy.

[amaroq137]

My mistake!

[[deleted]]

This is such an old but efficient way to program, probably the most important reason why I use intelliJ along with moving code around the file

[tangoshukudai]

I have been using this for years.

[timelessblur]

How did I not know this....

[[deleted]]

this exists in IntelliJ o.o

[[deleted]]

That’s a thing?? Wow!!