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How to switch text case in visual studio code

How does one switch the case of highlighted text in Visual Studio Code? VS allows this via CTRL+SHIFT+U and CTRL+U.

Is there a command binding that I can set up to do this, or is it by default some other key combination?

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Echoing justanotherdev's comment:

Mind-blowing and useful:

Ctrl

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>transform

I've written a Visual Studio Code extension for changing case (not only upper case, many other options): https://github.com/wmaurer/vscode-change-case

To map the upper case command to a keybinding (e.g. Ctrl+T U), click File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts, and insert the following into the json config:

{
"key": "ctrl+t u",
"command": "extension.changeCase.upper",
"when": "editorTextFocus"
}


EDIT:

With the November 2016 (release notes) update of VSCode, there is built-in support for converting to upper case and lower case via the commands editor.action.transformToUppercase and editor.action.transformToLowercase. These don't have default keybindings.

editor.action.transformToUppercase

editor.action.transformToLowercase

The change-case extension is still useful for other text transformations, e.g. camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case, etc.

>transform

Quoted from this post:

The question is about how to make CTRL+SHIFT+U work in Visual Studio
Code. Here is how to do it. (Version 1.8.1 or above). You can also choose a different key combination.

File-> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.

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

keybindings.json

[
{
"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.

cmd+shift+u

cmd+shift+l

I think this is a feature currently missing right now.

I noticed when I was making a guide for the keyboard shortcut differences between it and Sublime.

It's a new editor though, I wouldn't be surprised if they added it back in a new version.

Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization

To have in Visual Studio Code what you can do in Sublime Text ( CTRL+K CTRL+U and CTRL+K CTRL+L ) you could do this:

Between the brackets add:

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


Save and close "keybindings.json"

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