Question

Say I have a the word “two” selected selected on a line like:

one two three

Is there a key combination to create a multiple selection with a cursor at both ends of the previous selection like this (in which the | characters represent cursors):

one |two| three

I’m looking for something like the command-shift-L feature, but it needs to work on a single line.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There used to be a shortcut for this. It was Ctrl+Shift+K. It’s still in the docs:

Given a selected block of text, Ctrl+Shift+K will split it into two selections, one for each end.

It doesn’t look like this exists anymore, but I wish they would bring it back.