How to select multiple places (sublime) in code in Android Studio?

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How to select multiple places in code in Android Studio ?

I want to insert the same text in multiple places in my source code. Like a have more than one mouse cursor. I used to do it in VS2012 so easily though not sure how to do it in Android Studio ?

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Solution 1 - Android Studio

I found how and lets share this cool feature with you. I found three cool features:

  1. For multiple selection just hold alt + shift then select whenever you want to change by mouse click then type some thing you can write at multiple places at the same time.

  2. Another cool feature is column selection. This lets you to click in a great manner and greatly of help especially when you are refactoring.

In most systems it works with holding middleMouseButton and dragging over your code and in others it works by holding alt and selecting code it acts like below:

It selects like this

  1. the third cool feature is sublime selection it finds the same word in code and let you change that or append that easily. you can do that by pressing alt + j on Windows / Linux and ctrl + g in mac. Look how it works:

its great for refactoring

Also as @Narayana said in comments, Ctrl + Shift + Alt + j selects all occurrences in one shot, for one-shot refactoring.

Solution 2 - Android Studio

You can use Alt + Shift and click multiple locations to for multiple cursor.

To select similar occurrences in files use Alt + j.

For more details : Click Here

Solution 3 - Android Studio

Multiline Caret (without mouse)

Windows: CTRL + CTRL(Hold) + ↑ / ↓

Mac: + (Hold) + ↑ / ↓

ESC will end multiline mode.

Change Multi-caret Hotkey

To add a custom Keymap, CTRL+SHIFT+A, type keymap and click on the one with Settings as subtext. Search for Clone Caret Above and Clone Caret Below.

I mapped mine to ALT+SHIFT+↑ / ↓.

Bonus

Try holding combinations of CTRL, SHIFT, and arrows for improved selection power.

Solution 4 - Android Studio

For both Mac and Windows, just open the Context Menu and click on the "Column selection mode" to enable or disable the behaviour..

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Solution 5 - Android Studio

Press Shift + Alt + Insert combination to edit in Column selection mode.

Solution 6 - Android Studio

On a mac I like to do ⌥ (option) + shift + mouse click on multiple lines in Android Studio 3.1.3.

Solution 7 - Android Studio

On a MacOS you can use:

Tap: Control + Command + G - Select all the same value

Tap: Control + G - Every tap combination select the new same value

Hold: Option + Mouse Click - Select multiline with a mouse

Hold: Option + Shift and Tap: Mouse Click - duplicate cursor for a each tap place

Solution 8 - Android Studio

Use the following:

ALT + SHIFT

Solution 9 - Android Studio

I'm using android studio arctic fox and pressing Alt alone and then selecting code is working properly in windows.

Solution 10 - Android Studio

on Mac , hold OPTION + SHIFT then use the mouse to highlight what you want to select

Solution 11 - Android Studio

On Windows, you can try a plugin whose name is ConyEdit. It has a great column mode based on regular expression.

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