How do I skip / jump past next string instance selection in VSCode?

Question

Whilst running the hotkey for multiple cursors CMD + D I keep finding myself in need of skipping only one item.

So for instance, in the following code, pipes indicate my current selection and the item in the middle I would like to skip.

 checked=""| 
 checked=""| 
 checked=""| 
 checked=""| // <-- I am here in my selection
 checked=""  // <-- skip this item for selection and proceed to select the rest
 checked=""
 checked=""
 checked=""

Is this doable in VSCode?

What have I tried so far?

I have tried using shift and looking up the VSCode shortcuts documentation.

Answer 1

There are two ways:

{
  "key": "ctrl+k ctrl+d",
  "command": "editor.action.moveSelectionToNextFindMatch",
  "when": "editorFocus"
}

This keybinding is already there. You actually select the one you want to skip and then do Ctrl+K Ctrl+D to move that last selection you did to the next find match.

Or, just select them all with Ctrl+Shift+Land then go back with your multicursor modifier key Cmd/Alt and deselect the ones you don't want one by one.

Here is a demo of both methods - the gif doesn't show all the keystrokes very well unfortunately - the skip one is Ctrl+K Ctrl+D as explained above after you have selected one too many: