
There's also a menu item Use Ctrl+Click for Multi-Cursor in the Selection menu to quickly toggle this setting.

ctrlCmd - Maps to Ctrl on Windows and Cmd on macOS.

This lets users coming from other editors such as Sublime Text or Atom continue to use the keyboard modifier they are familiar with. If you'd like to change the modifier key for applying multiple cursors to Cmd+Click on macOS and Ctrl+Click on Windows and Linux, you can do so with the editor.multiCursorModifier setting. Tip: You can also add more cursors with ⇧⌘L (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+L), which will add a selection at each occurrence of the current selected text. ⌘D (Windows, Linux Ctrl+D) selects the word at the cursor, or the next occurrence of the current selection. Note: Your graphics card driver (for example NVIDIA) might overwrite these default shortcuts. A common way to add more cursors is with ⌥⌘↓ (Windows Ctrl+Alt+Down, Linux Shift+Alt+Down) or ⌥⌘↑ (Windows Ctrl+Alt+Up, Linux Shift+Alt+Up) that insert cursors below or above. Each cursor operates independently based on the context it sits in. You can add secondary cursors (rendered thinner) with Alt+Click. VS Code supports multiple cursors for fast simultaneous edits.

