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Is there a keyboard shortcut (or customizable keyboard shortcut) to select text inside a single quote '' and double quotes "" in Visual Studio 2012.
eg:
string name = "John Doe";
instead of dragging the mouse to select all of John Doe, is there a way to just point the cursor inside the double quotes and press a key combination to select it? Wanting to avoid usage of mouse a much a possible.
I found a similar question
Visual Studio / R# Keyboard shortcuts: select string with or without quotes
but the shortcut given will only select a particular text, not the entire text inside quotes
TIA
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Shift + End = Select the entire line from start to end. Shift + Home = Select the entire line from end to start.
Ctrl-Shift-F is used to find all the ocuurance of a string with in entire solution and display find result window as shown below. Ctrl-F is used to find a string in the current document, project and all open documents one by one.
To select a single word, quickly double-click that word. To select a line of text, place your cursor at the start of the line, and press Shift + down arrow. To select a paragraph, place your cursor at the start of the paragraph, and press Ctrl + Shift + down arrow.
As of VS2019, with the cursor inside the string, ALT+SHIFT+= will select the whole string, including the surrounding quotes.
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TLDR; CTRL+W+W
I am using visual studio 2017 with ReSharper. I don't know if it is ReSharper that added the command or if it is native to VS2017 but using my set-up it is possible to select the text within quotes by putting the cursor in between the quotes and hitting CTRL+W+W
The first CTRL+W will select the word closest to the cursor. Hitting W again will select everything between the quotes.
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