--- title: Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction description: An animated, interactive guide to multi-cursor editing in VS Code using Command+D. Covers text navigation shortcuts (Option/Control for word jumping, Command... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction | daily.dev og:description: An animated, interactive guide to multi-cursor editing in VS Code using Command+D. Covers text navigation shortcuts (Option/Control for word jumping, Command... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kQcQ3dbZd.png og:image:alt: Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction **[Alex Harri](https://daily.dev/sources/alexharri)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An animated, interactive guide to multi-cursor editing in VS Code using Command+D. Covers text navigation shortcuts (Option/Control for word jumping, Command for line boundaries), finding patterns in non-uniform code structures, selecting all matches with Shift+Command+L, skipping specific instances with Command+K+D, matching newlines, and performing case transformations. Includes practical examples like converting function calls to object arrays and transforming plain text into JSON arrays. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:29:38.757Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:51:21.124Z","description":"An animated, interactive guide to multi-cursor editing in VS Code using Command+D. Covers text navigation shortcuts (Option/Control for word jumping, Command...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Alex Harri","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Alex Harri","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--bdkrSn23--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960051/logos/alexharri?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/alexharri"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/multi-cursor-code-editing-an-animated-introduction-kqcq3dbzd","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"productivity,vscode","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alex Harri","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/alexharri"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction"}]} ```