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Master the Multi-Cursor Power
March 22, 2026
If you find yourself manually changing the same variable name or HTML tag in five different places, stop! In VS Code, you can hit Cmd+D (or Ctrl+D) to select the next occurrence of the current word. It’s a total game-changer for quick refactoring. If you want to go even faster, Cmd+Shift+L selects all instances at once. Just be careful—make sure you aren't accidentally editing a similar-looking string in a different part of the file!