How do I select a single line within Visual Studio Code?

Question

Using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, how do I select a single line of code? (equivalent to Atom's or other IDE's Cmd+L on Mac)

And what would be the command I'm looking for? (e.g. editor.action.copyLinesDownAction)

It's quite confusing, since other selection shortucts like Cmd+A and Cmd+D are the same as in my previous IDE's.

Answer 1

It's Cmd+I by default in VS Code versions prior to 1.32.

Starting from version 1.32 it's Cmd+L.

You could change it in Keyboard Shortcuts by searching for expandLineSelection.

Answer 2

As for me, I noticed that what was causing the issue was that there were similar keyboard shortcuts. As a result, what fixed it was deleting the similar keys.

So when I tried to use ⌘ + L I noticed that there was this thing in the left corner.

Picture that says it is awaiting an actual command:

So what I did was simply delete the commands in the keyboard shortcut (i.e. ⌘ + K ⌘ + S) that were similar. They ended up being shortcuts for the live server extension.

You can see which ones are similar by typing cmd + L in the search bar for the keyboard shortcut. Any command that starts with ⌘ + L will take precedence over the single one that just uses ⌘ + L hence the reason it didn't work for me.

Keyboard shortcut search of cmd + l:

Hope this helps anyone that may need clarification on this!