TIL: VSCode + Vim MultiSelect

Context:

• VS Code IDE
• Vim Extension

Problem:

• Ctrl+d keybinding does not work as expected.
• Expecting multi-select of highlighted word. Instead, get some type of chunk selection.

Solutions:

1) Play a Vim melody combo: viw + gb

• viw to select the word
• gb to grab next occurrence

2) Enable the Ctrl+d keybinding:

• Edit VS Code's settings.json to include the following:

"vim.handleKeys": {
    "<C-d>": false
  }

Reference:

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/2144

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