In Sublime Text, it's easy to select the next instance of a word by pressing command + d and also place multiple cursors by pressing command & clicking. I know I'm not alone in saying this is an incredibly useful function in editors.
I haven't had any luck in finding any key mappings or Alcatraz plugins for this, so I was interested to see if either there is a way to do this in xcode 5 which I might have missed or if there are plans to implement this in xcode 6?
If there isn't, and any xcode developers see this, would love to see this as a feature and hear your opinions on it :)
It is possible starting from Xcode 10 Beta 3
You can add selections for the next and previous find results using
the “Find and Select Next” and “Find and Select Previous” menu
commands.
Additionally, you can quickly add selections for the next and previous
occurrences of the current selected text using the “Select Next
Occurrence” and “Select Previous Occurrence” menu commands.
ALT + ⌘ + E to select next occurence of currently selected
ALT + SHIFT + ⌘ + E to select previous occurence of currently selected
ALT + ⌘ + G to find and select next
ALT + SHIFT + ⌘ + G to find and select previous
You can also use the Find
menu to find these actions. Of course, feel free to bind it to different hotkeys!
If what you're wanting to do is change the name of a variable, then when your cursor is on the variable press control+command+E and type away. (This is "Edit All in scope")
For editing on a Project scope there is always the Editor > Refactor > Rename
menu item
Highlight the word you'd like to get the next instance, then press:
⌘ + E
and
⌘ + G.
Continuing to press ⌘ + G will cycle through all instances of the word you pressed ⌘ + E on.
I have more xcode shortcuts on my site that I sometimes reference.
I just read on twitter that Xcode team has added multiple cursors feature for testing, but kept it hidden.To enable it use following command.
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode PegasusMultipleCursorsEnabled -bool true
Link for your reference.
Multiple Cursor in Xcode
There's the Xcode-Multi-Edit-Plugin. It's still not quite like Sublime because the multiple cursors can't be used to edit beyond the selection you made when you started command-d-ing but it's close enough.
The plugin is not updated for Xcode 7.3 but this can be easily fixed by adding
<string>ACA8656B-FEA8-4B6D-8E4A-93F4C95C362C</string>
to the list of similar UUIDs in <key>DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUIDs</key>
in the plugin's Info.plist. (Found at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/XcodeMultiEdit.xcplugin/Contents/Info.plist
)
Another promising plug-in which currently lacks Xcode 7.3 support is Multiplex.
Apple just released Xcode 10 beta with the following feature:
The Xcode Source Editor now supports multi-cursor editing allowing you
to quickly edit multiple ranges of code at once. You can place
additional cursors with the mouse via ⌃+⇧+Click or with column select
(⌥+Click+Drag), or with the keyboard using ⌃+⇧+Up to column select up
or ⌃+⇧+Down to column select down. (12564506)
You can create cursors with
SHIFT + CTRL + click
wherever you need more cursor
You can either use
SHIFT + CTRL + DOWN ARROW
(or up arrow) if you want to create a new cursor on the following line.