⚡🤯 The fastest way to copy, paste, and edit multiple lines in VS Code… and most devs have NO idea this exists. Just place your cursor at the start of the line, use this shortcut, and watch the magic happen ✨⌨️

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Visual Studio Codeseen in 13 videos →https://code.visualstudio.com ↗

Why it worked

The video provides a highly practical and time-saving coding tip that directly addresses a common pain point for developers, making it valuable and shareable content.

Summary

This video demonstrates a VS Code shortcut for efficiently copying, pasting, and editing multiple lines of code simultaneously. It highlights how this feature can save developers significant time compared to traditional methods.

Structure

1Introduce the problem of inefficient line editing
2Demonstrate basic copy-paste
3Show multi-line selection and modification
4Introduce keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac
5Show the result of the shortcut

Product placement

Visual Studio Code (VS Code): an AI code editor that allows users to write, edit, and debug code. It ACTS in this video as the interface where the editing actions are performed. Removing it would change what happens in the video.

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⚡🤯 The fastest way to copy, paste, and edit multiple lines in VS Code… and most devs have NO idea this exists. Just place your cursor at the start of the line, use this shortcut, and watch the magic happen ✨⌨️ Bonus: Multi-line editing will save you even more time 🚀 #VSCode #CodingTips

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reminder.md reminder.md 1. Very Fast Laptop 2. Really Big mouse 3. SSD Ctrl+C/V Cmd+C/V Ctrl+Alt Opt+Cmd

Transcript

Do not waste time highlighting lines and then copying and pasting. Just pick your cursor on the line that you want to change and do command C, command V. Do not waste time to highlight multiple lines to make similar changes. If the changes are similar, you can do option command and hit the up arrow or down arrow for the lines that you want to modify and then boom. Boom!! Boom!! Life is precious, save all that extra time.