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Stop Repeating Yourself with Multi-Cursors
February 11, 2026
If you aren't using multi-cursor editing in VS Code yet, you're missing out on some serious magic. By holding Alt (or Option on Mac) and clicking, or using Ctrl+D to select the next occurrence of a word, you can edit ten lines at once. It’s perfect for those tedious tasks like wrapping a list of strings in quotes or renaming variables that aren't quite caught by the standard refactoring tools.