Notebook: Keyboard shortcut for multiline cursor
Multiline editing is currently possible by holding Alt and dragging the mouse to create a multiline cursor. I find this slow and imprecise. Could we also please have a keyboard shortcut to do this? For example, Sublime Text 3 uses Shift+Alt+(up or down arrows). I don't know what's possible with a browser based notebook though.
This is mentioned in a comment on issue #2527 but not responded to.
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Has any work been done on this?
joshuadanpeterson
on 22 Feb 2020
Why there is no shortcut for this?
mertyertugrul
on 4 Jun 2020
bump
jsr-p
on 19 Jun 2020
That would be incredibly useful!
vaknin
on 20 Jun 2020
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/2527 its CMD+Click on macOS.
kirilzilla
on 3 Jul 2020
2527 its CMD+Click on macOS.
comment was for a keyboard shortcut, not a mouse shortcut
laughingrice
on 8 Jul 2020
Has there been any progress on this?
nickmccullum
on 13 Aug 2020
If you need a multiline cursor for 20 lines, clicking to set up precise locations takes longer than not using the multiline cursor at all. Would it be possible to have a keyboard shortcut for it?
aldanor
on 5 Sep 2020
Bumping this, it's a must-have feature in my opinion. Pressing Alt + up/down arrow to multiline edit is something I'm always lacking when writing code in Jupyter notebooks.
As a developer I often find myself using Google Colab for smaller tasks just because of their awesome code editor and auto-completion.
I feel that the two features that vanilla notebooks are missing right now are developer-level key bindings like the one proposed here, and an IntelliSense-like autocompletion similar to the ones in VS Code and Colab.
rsayn
on 26 Nov 2020
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If you need a multiline cursor for 20 lines, clicking to set up precise locations takes longer than not using the multiline cursor at all. Would it be possible to have a keyboard shortcut for it?