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Can I make a multi-line selection of text all capitals in Visual Studio Code?

In full Visual Studio it's CTRL+SHIFT+U to do this.

The extension that exists that I have seen only do non-multi-line blocks.

NOTE: THE UI OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE WHEN THIS QUESTION WAS ASKED (5 OR MORE YEARS AGO) HAS CHANGED.

Answers

The question is about how to make CTRL+SHIFT+U work in Visual Studio Code. Here is how to do it in version 1.57.1 or above.

Steps:

1. Open Visual Studio Code.

2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+P.

3. Type

   open keyboard shortcuts
   

4. Select

   Open keyboard shortcuts (json)

An editor will appear with keybindings.json file. Place the following JSON in there and save:

[
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+u",
        "command": "editor.action.transformToUppercase",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+l",
        "command": "editor.action.transformToLowercase",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    }
]

Now CTRL+SHIFT+U will capitalise selected text, even if multi line. In the same way, CTRL+SHIFT+L will make selected text lowercase.

These commands are built into VS Code and no extensions are required to make them work.

Update August 2021

There is a UI to see and update keyboard shortcuts:

File-> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.

1. Find "Transform to Uppercase":

   

2. Click the + icon.

3. In the popup, press the desired key combination and hit enter:

   

Do the same for lower case.

Note

In the new versions (eg 1.57.x) of VS Code, Ctrl+Shift+L is a shortcut for bulk selecting all selected text occurrences. So you can use another combination, like Ctrl+Shift+/ etc.