Vscode: Word selection when holding Ctrl and dragging with mouse

[Montago]

in VS2015 you can select whole words by holding down CTRL and do selection, it's faster and easier !!

you can also CTRL + CLICK to select a whole word.

MAKE IT SO ... please :)

[alexdima]

This is also possible in VSCode via alt+click out of the box. The modifier can be changed to ctrl+click via the menu Selection > Switch to ctrl+click for multi-cursor.

Additionally, box selection can be done via ctrl+shift+alt and dragging.

[Montago]

No, those two features are unrelated !

I'm NOT talking about multicursor.

I'm talking about WORDS SELECTION

There is no option to enable CTRL+CLICK for selecting a whole word or holding down CTRL and CLICK/DRAG for selecting words.

You need to try in Visual Studio 2008/2012/2013/2015/2017

[Montago]

ctrl+shift+alt and dragging doesn't do anything in VSCODE ... or it doesn't work for me...

[Montago]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43428264/use-ctrlclick-to-select-word-in-vs-code

[alexdima]

I think box selection is doable via shift+alt, not ctrl+shift+alt:

[Montago]

Regarding box-selection, i think its annoying that you need to place the cursor before starting the selection. in VS2015 that happens automatically + the whole selection has a background that indicate the selection. In VS2015 you can also select blank space if you need to - this doesn't work in VSCODE (can't say i miss it though.. but occasionally it made sense to do so)

Regarding the CTRL + CLICK to select a word and CTRL + DRAG to select multiple - i hope you can do something about that.

[Montago]

remove the "editor-columnselect" tag too

[trevordaniels]

I think the new title is not correct as this request is not just about selecting words by dragging the mouse, but also selecting a whole word by using ctrl + click.

[trevordaniels]

3130

[trevordaniels]

also related #27905

[AdjutantML]

+1
This is one of the the first features that I missed in VS Code when coming from Visual Studio

[mammadkoma]

When we can use ctrl+click to select word?
3 years have passed!

[WalterRoberts]

Please add this feature as soon as possible! Using this in combination with Ctrl+X/C/V would be a true time saver when making selections and editing with the mouse!

[alexanderkushnirchuk]

Still waiting for this feature, it's really useful

[shinolex]

Will this feature come soon? I just started to use vs code and I realized how often I was using ctrl+click to select word and ctrl+click+drag to select a piece of code in visual studio :( Also I wish that multi row edit were working like it was in visual studio(alt+click shortcut in visual stuio)

[ModCraig]

This drives me crazy. I have to work so much slower in VS Code when copy/pasting because I have to carefully place the cursor at the start of the word each time instead of just Ctrl-Clicking like in most other programs.

Please can this be added to the change list asap?