Disable multiple selection in Android Studio?

Question

I was coding something and suddenly android studio started placing cursors on each and every selected line. I dont know if it is a feature that was fired because of some shortcuts that I am not aware of. This is the gif screencast.

How can I disable this behavior? Is it a feature? If so how to activate and deactivate it? What is it called?

Fiveandten

Maybe this post could be useful. I assume Android Studio has the same shortcuts as IntelliJ. – Bema

Answer 1

You must have activated Column Selection Mode.

Use Main Menu | Edit | Column Selection Mode to toggle it ON/OFF.

Check more on different ways how you can work with Multiple Carets: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/multicursor.html#column_selection

Lacunar

in Edit tab not Editor, but ty :) – Ophiolatry

@Ophiolatry every time you see something that can be edit in a answer or question, you can edit yourself and improve it. Hope you not take it in a bad way. Just remembering you that this is a good option :) – Lenorelenox

I didn't know about the edit feature. sorry for that and thank you for the tip @LeonardoSibela – Ophiolatry

Answer 2

If you are on mac ⌘ (Cmd) + ↑ (Shift) + 8 will disable/enable it by default.

Hessian

Answer 3

use Alt + Shift + Insert.
If this isn't working, right click on code and click click in 'column selection mode`.

Elderberry

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