duplicateselection

This extension adds an action to vscode to duplicate the current selection.

Features

Adds the action duplicateselection.action.copySelectionForwardAction and duplicateselection.action.copySelectionBackwardAction

To get a behaviour similar to SublimeText or Notepad++ you can use the following in your keybindings.json:

{
	"key": "ctrl+d",
	"command": "editor.action.copyLinesDownAction",
	"when":  "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly && !editorHasSelection"
},
{
	"key": "ctrl+d",
	"command": "duplicateselection.action.copySelectionForwardAction",
	"when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly && editorHasSelection"
}

Requirements

None.

Release Notes

1.0.1

Minor cleanups:

added some documentation
added licence
code cleanup
added some tests
removed bug with multiple selection in backward copy

1.0.0

Initial release of DuplicateSelection. Does nothing else as what is mentioned in the features.

Known Issues

When using duplicateselection.action.copySelectionBackwardAction the message "Edits from command duplicateselection.action.copySelectionBackwardAction were not applied." is displayed in the terminal.