sublime multiline editing

sublime 3 keyboard shortcuts.md

Mouse

Windows/Linux

Building blocks:

• Positive/negative:
  • Add to selection: Ctrl
  • Subtract from selection: Alt (only works with block selection in v3; presumably bug)
• Selection type:
  • Linear selection: Left Click
  • Block selection: Middle Click or Shift + Right Click

Combine as you see fit. For example:

• Add to selection: Ctrl + Left Click (and optionally drag)
• Subtract from selection: Alt + Left Click (and drag--this combination doesn't work in Sublime Text 3, but supposedly it works in 2)
• Add block selection: Ctrl + Shift + Right Click (and drag)
• Subtract block selection: Alt + Shift + Right Click (and drag)

Mac OS X

Building blocks:

• Positive/negative:
  • Add to selection: ⌘
  • Subtract from selection: ⇧⌘ (only works with block selection in v3; presumably bug)
• Selection type:
  • Linear selection: Left Click
  • Block selection: Middle Click or ⌥ + Left Click

Combine as you see fit. For example:

• Add to selection: ⌘ + Left Click (and optionally drag)
• Subtract from selection: ⇧⌘ + Left Click (and drag--this combination doesn't work in Sublime Text 3, but supposedly it works in 2)
• Add block selection: ⌥⌘ + Left Click (and drag)
• Subtract block selection: ⌥⇧⌘ + Left Click (and drag)

Keyboard

Windows/Linux

• Return to single selection mode: Esc
• Extend selection upward/downward at all carets: Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down
• Extend selection leftward/rightward at all carets: Shift + Left/Right
• Move all carets up/down/left/right, and clear selection: Up/Down/Left/Right
• Undo the last selection motion: Ctrl + U
• Add next occurrence of selected text to selection: Ctrl + D
• Add all occurrences of the selected text to the selection: Alt + F3
• Rotate between occurrences of selected text (single selection): Ctrl + F3
• Turn a single linear selection into a block selection, with a caret at the end of the selected text in each line: Ctrl + Shift + L

Mac OS X

• Return to single selection mode: ⎋ (that's the Mac symbol for Escape)
• Extend selection upward/downward at all carets: ⌃⇧⇡, ⌃⇧⇣ (See note)
• Extend selection leftward/rightward at all carets: ⇧⇠/⇧⇢
• Move all carets up/down/left/right and clear selection: ⇠, ⇡, ⇣, ⇢
• Undo the last selection motion: ⌘U
• Add next occurrence of selected text to selection: ⌘D
• Add all occurrences of the selected text to the selection: ⌃⌘G
• Rotate between occurrences of selected text (single selection): I'm too lazy to open my MacBook to figure it out, and it's not documented, but it most certainly exists.
• Turn a single linear selection into a block selection, with a caret at the end of the selected text in each line: ⇧⌘L

Note

On Yosemite, ⌃⇧⇡ and ⌃⇧⇣ are system keyboard shortcuts by default. If you want them to work in Sublime Text, you will need to change them:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click the Keyboard category.
3. Select Mission Control in the left listbox.
4. Change the keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control and Application windows (or disable them). I use ⌃⌥⇡ and ⌃⌥⇣.