Multi-Cursor Search

Performs a search starting after each cursor. Basically acts just like a normal search but is repeated for each cursor.

Supports both plain and regex searches.

Features

Search Abilities

• Plain searches.
• Regex searches.
  • Customize flags using configuration.
• Advanced searches.
  • Regex searches with extra dialogs to specify flags and result selection type.

Selection Abilities

• Select results.
• Select between cursors and results.
• Expand cursors/selections to include results.

Select results:

Select between cursors and results:

Advanced search:

Extension Commands

Command	Description
yo1dog.multi-cursor-search.plainSearch	Perform plain search and select results.
yo1dog.multi-cursor-search.plainSearchSelectBetween	Perform plain search and select text between cursors and results.
yo1dog.multi-cursor-search.regexSearch	Perform regex search.
yo1dog.multi-cursor-search.regexSearchSelectBetween	Perform regex search and select text between cursors and results.
yo1dog.multi-cursor-search.advancedSearch	Perform advanced search.

If you prefer regex searches over plain searches, you can switch the default keybindings.

Extension Configuration

Configuration	Description
multiCursorSearch.plainSearch.ignoreCase	Specifies if case should be ignored when performing plain searches. Internaly, this enables the i regex flag.
multiCursorSearch.regexSearch.ignoreCase	Specifies if the ignore case (i) flag should be used when performing regex searches.
multiCursorSearch.regexSearch.multiline	Specifies if the multiline (m) flag should be used when performing regex searches.
multiCursorSearch.regexSearch.dotAll	Specifies if the "dotAll" (s) flag should be used when performing regex searches.

See the JavaScript RegExp docs for more details on the regex flags.

Implementation Details

Searches begin after cursors/selections. There is currently no support for searching within selections. If there are no results, the cursor does not move. If multiple cursors have the same result or overlap they are collapsed into a single selection.

When using ^ in regex searches, remember that because the search starts after the cursor it will first match the cursor's position.

Keybindings Not Working?

The default keybindings may be captured higher up (ex: at the OS level). Try changing the keybinding.

If you continue to have problems, please open a new issue here.

Known Issues

See Issues.

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md