Duplicate selection action/shortcut

[madcampos]

Other editors provide a shortcut to duplicate the current selection, or if nothing is selected duplicate the whole line (actually the actions of copyLinesDownAction and copyLinesUpAction).

[alexdima]

Marco Campos (@madcampos) I am not sure I've seen this, can you please give a more detailed description. Would this action do exactly what a Ctrl+C followed by a Ctrl+V would do?

[madcampos]

alexandrudima if there is text selected, yes, it behaves just like a Ctrl+C followed by a Ctrl+V at the text cursor's position, if there is no text selected it duplicates the whole line, like copyLinesDownAction.
For example the Brackets shortcut for this is Ctrl+D.
Atom offers just the copyLinesDownAction behavior with the Ctl+Shift+D shortcut.

As an example:

this line of text|

After the action has taken turns to:

this line of text|
this line of text

The selection (represented by bold):

this line| of text

After the action becomes:

this line|line of text

[PedroNorte]

Specifically useful because it lets you duplicate a line without losing the contents of your clipboard! The alternative of Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V overwrites your clipboard.

[Lambdac0re]

+1

Like sublime text [cmd]+D.

How to?

[gitviola]

+1

[alexdima]

PedroNorte specifically for line duplication, we have two. I cannot survive without them :):

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings#_basic-editing

Here are the Windows keybindings:

[farfromrefug]

+1 copyLinesDownAction and copyLinesUpAction are not the same!
what we want is copySelectionDownAction and copySelectionUpAction

[SeinopSys]

Yes, please!

[iambibhas]

Yes please! I miss this dearly.