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Is there a way to emulate the 'multiple cursor' features of Sublime Text in Visual Studio?
I'm aware that you can use ST2 as your external editor in Visual Studio, but I'm not sure this is possible in the Express Edition.
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Ctrl+D selects the word at the cursor, or the next occurrence of the current selection. Tip: You can also add more cursors with Ctrl+Shift+L, which will add a selection at each occurrence of the current selected text.
While you can place multiple text cursors in Sublime Text with Cmd–Click (Mac) or Ctrl–Click (Windows), here's another technique that comes in handy. Hold Ctrl–Shift (Mac) or Ctrl–Alt (Windows) and hit Up or Down Arrow to place an additional text cursor above or below the current cursor.
Check out this new Visual Studio add-on which brings exactly what you want, It supports all versions of Visual Studio since 2010.
Since Visual Studio Express doesn't support add-ins, there is no way to enable this feature on the express version.
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Update! In VS 2019 we can use ctrl+alt+click. Also, it brings the old block selection (alt+mouse selection) and other options like the ones in Edit>Multiple Insertion Symbols.
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