Move Cursor Up or Down Multiple Lines at once in VS Code-CodePudding

Note: I have searched in Google and other SO posts, but none of them have helped me.

I know that we can move up or down with Alt Arrow. Is there a way to move, let's say 25 lines up, at once? I don't want to press Alt ↑ 25 times.

Is there a plugin or a built-in feature to do this?

The reason I'm asking is that it's easier to move multiple lines at once due to the relative line numbers feature in VS Code.

I don't want to specify each number in keybindings.json (As seen here).

CodePudding user response：

You can use multi-command

Like in Photoshop when you move something Arrow moves 1 pixel, Shift Arrow moves 20 pixels.

The Arrow key has no modifier combo unused so we have to choose a different key.

New keybindings to move up or down 10 lines

{
  "key": "alt numpad8",  // or any other key combo
  "command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
  "args": { 
    "sequence": [
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesUpAction"
    ]
  },
  "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
},
{
  "key": "alt numpad2",
  "command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
  "args": { 
    "sequence": [
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction",
      "editor.action.moveLinesDownAction"
    ]
  },
  "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
}

Maybe you have to add a little delay

  "args": { 
    "interval": 50,
    "sequence": [

CodePudding user response：

To make it easier to navigate the cursor in blocks of lines you could set a keybinding to jump 10 lines up or down at once (in your keybindings.json):

{
    "key": "ctrl up",         // whatever keybinding you want
    "command": "cursorMove",
    "args": {
        "to": "up",
        "by": "line",
        "value": 10         // change this if you want
    },
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl down",        // whatever keybinding you want
    "command": "cursorMove",
    "args": {
        "to": "down",
        "by": "line",
        "value": 10         // change
    },
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
}

As noted in the comments, this comes from https://stackoverflow.com/a/48568520/836330 so upvote that.