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.

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Navigating textFinding the patternMatching every instanceSkipping an instanceMatching line breaksCase transformationsThat’s a wrap!

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