Feature Spotlight: Multiple Selections in PyCharm

Dmitry Filippov

Today I’d like to highlight one of the most top voted features that appeared in PyCharm 3.4 some time ago – Multiple Selections. Since then a lot of people have been using it and enjoying the increased productivity while editing.

With this feature you can:

• Set multiple cursors in the editor area: Alt + Mouse Click (Option + Mouse Click for Mac OS X). Note that on some systems you also have to use Shift with the shortcuts mentioned.
• Select/unselect the next occurrence: Alt + J / Shift + Alt + J (Ctrl + G / Shift + Ctrl +G for Mac OS X)
• Select all occurrences: Shift + Ctrl + Alt + J (Ctrl + Cmd + G for Mac OS X)
• Clone caret above/below (the shortcuts are not mapped yet)
• Remove all selections: Esc

You can redefine these shortcuts in Settings -> Keymap -> Editor Actions if necessary.

Multiple selections work nicely together with other PyCharm features like Code completion, Select word at caret, Join lines, Copy/paste, and the others. This feature also works with all languages supported by PyCharm such as Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and more.

Hope you’ll enjoy this handy feature!

-Dmitry

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