My source file looks like
123456789
456
789
and I want to paste the following text appending to the end of the each line
abcd
efgh
hijk
the desired output should be as follow (which can be done in ultraedit)
123456789 abcd
456 efgh
789 hijk
but with vscode I can only get
123456789 abcd
456 efgh
789 hijk
Can anyone can show me how?
Using my answer from Pad selected lines to cursor position in VSCode but using a smaller number, like 10.
from within the macro at the link modify the following line:
// keep first 10 characters, increase/decrease to suit your needs but always overshoot
"snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(.{10}).*/$1/g}",
The idea is to include more spaces than you are likely to need and then keep only the first 10 characters - so your values + enough spaces to equal 10 total characters. Depending on your likely values, choose a sufficiently higher number to get your column of cursors beyond where you will likely want them to end up - it is easy to move them left/right as a straight group afterwards if need be.
[And make sure the setting Multi Cursor Paste is set to its default option spread.]
In the demo the macro keybinding alt+s doesn't show up for some reason but that is all I used to get the column of cursors aligned to the right of your values between the copy and paste.
