Visual Studio 2010 tip: Cut empty lines

Thursday, June 17, 2010

How many times you wanted to move 2 lines by cut and pasting them, but the line you cut last is actually a blank line and your actual code is removed from the clipboard? Visual Studio 2010 has an option that keeps cutting blank lines from overwriting the clipboard. Go and uncheck this one: Tools » Options » Text Editor » All Languages » General » Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection

Extra (related) tip

The (free) Visual Studio 2010 extension Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools contains (apart from a bunch of other handy features) the commands Edit.MoveLineUp and Edit.MoveLineDown to do whatever they say they do and maps them automatically to keyboard shortcuts Alt+Up & Alt+Down.

Resharper (not-free) has similar commands for moving lines, by default mapped to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up/Down.

Or you can just use Shift + Ctrl + V to cycle through clipboard items

Stephen - Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:13:22 PM

Thanks for sharing this nice info, it will help a lot.

Abdul Rauf - Friday, June 18, 2010 7:42:23 AM

Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for. I find the default behavior rather annoying...

a9n - Monday, November 22, 2010 5:01:16 PM

Extra (related) tip

3 Comments