Drag selected text to move it?

Question

Is it possible to drag selected text to move it? This is in almost every other editor (not to mention text input fields in browsers.) I was surprised not to find it in VS Co

Answer 1

This is now supported as of Feb 2017 release (1.10.1) but it is disabled by default.

To enable it: Go to File > Preferences > Settings and add this line "editor.dragAndDrop": true

Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-drag-and-drop-selected-text

Answer 2

I talk about this problem on Github Microsoft page and Microsoft engineers see this. I hope to solve it. (Please support by

Answer 3

Looks like it's not yet implemented, but there's an open issue about it.

If you want to help without diving into the internals, go

Answer 4

I don't believe so. Their site says that it is keyboard-optimized and keyboard-centric, so their idea might be that you should highlight some text, cut it, and past it where you want it rather than dragging it.