Time Saving Tips: (Text Mastery) Multi-Occurrence Selection

Time Saving Tips: (Text Mastery) Multi-Occurrence Selection
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As a software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, I've learned that one of the most valuable skills for saving time and boosting productivity is the ability to manipulate text efficiently and quickly.This skill is often underestimated how much ROI in time this amounts to over the years for a engineer who lives in an IDE or text-editor all day.


Today, I want to share just one of my favourite powerful techniques using Visual Studio Code: multi-occurrence selection with Cmd+D and Cmd+F2. This skill can make your coding workflow smoother and more efficient.The Power of Multi-Occurrence SelectionMulti-occurrence selection allows you to select and edit multiple instances of text simultaneously. This feature is incredibly useful when you need to make repetitive changes across your codebase. Whether you're converting brackets to parentheses or reformatting text into CSV, multi-occurrence selection can save you significant time and effort.Watch the 2-minute Full Tutorial:I demonstrate multi-occurrence selection in action. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more coding tips and tutorials!