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Supercharge Your Editing with Multi-Cursors

March 6, 2026

If you find yourself manually changing ten lines of similar code, you're working too hard! In VS Code, use `Cmd+D` (Mac) or `Ctrl+D` (Windows) to select the next occurrence of the current word. If you want to place cursors on every instance at once, hit `Cmd+Shift+L`. It’s a game-changer for renaming variables in a local scope or wrapping multiple strings in quotes simultaneously. Just remember to hit Escape when you're done to go back to a single cursor.