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Cut or Delete the Current Line

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Keyboard:  CTRL + L (cut text); SHIFT + DEL(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + X(cut text and carriage return); CTRL + SHIFT + L (delete)
Command:  Edit.LineCut; Edit.Cut; Edit.Cut; Edit.LineDelete
Versions:  2008,2010
Published:  4/4/2010
Code:  vstipEdit0038

 

You can quickly and easily do a cut operation by doing the following:

  1. Place your cursor on any line:
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  2. Do one of the following commands:
    1. CTRL + L to cut the text only
    2. SHIFT + DEL or CTRL + X to cut the line and the carriage return at the end of the line

If you want to DELETE the line instead you can use CTRL + SHIFT + L

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  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2010
    Catto! So...do you like the keystrokes?  How are they working for you? Z

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2011
    @Thomas for your copy empty text problem there is a setting you can change to avoid it. Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> General -> unselect "Apply cut and Copy Command to empty lines" Also the your previous copied content arent lost you can find the lates (20) by pressing ctrl + shift + V.

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2012
    I have been waiting for the equivalent of VB6's Ctrl-Y for years!  Thanks a lot!  Are you updating the book for VS 2012 anytime soon? :P

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2012
    Hey Paul :) Yeah Sara and I are hasing out what we want to put in the new book and some changes we want to make.  You can see what we are currently thinking about here: blogs.msdn.com/.../coding-faster-v2-being-considered.aspx Z

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2012
    Excellent, Z.  I'll keep an eye on that development.

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2013
    @Thomas you can use Ctrl+Shift+V to roll back in the clipboard to earlier values that you copied in Visual Studio, it rescued for me many codes that I would lost without it.

  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2015
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