Daily Software Tips & Tricks

If you find yourself manually renaming five similar variables or adding quotes to a long list of strings, stop! VS Code has a killer feature called multi-cursor editing. You can hit Alt + Click (or Option + Click on Mac) to place cursors in multiple spots at once, or use Ctrl + D (Cmd + D) to select the next occurrence of the current word.

It feels like a superpower once you get the muscle memory down, and it saves a massive amount of repetitive typing. It’s one of those small productivity wins that adds up to hours saved over a month of coding.