Feature Request: Generate GUID for each cursor

[lomholdt]

An awesome feature would be the ability to hook into multiple cursors and generate a unique GUID for each cursor on the screen 👍 If you are open for PR's I could have a look at it. Thanks for a nifty extension.

[heaths]

Feel free, and thanks!

[IanIsFluent]

Yeah, I wanted something that behaved the same as: https://github.com/SublimeText/GenerateUUID - which has that feature! I guess the UI would need to change to list the formats with an EXAMPLE rather than a particular GUID in the command window.

[heaths]

If either of you want to review the changes (also had to "modernize" my old extension project), I can go ahead and get a new version built and published. Manual testing looks good, so I'll go ahead and publish in a few days regardless, but a third-party review would be desirable.

[heaths]

BTW, this adds a new command "Insert many GUIDs" but with no keyboard binding. You could always rebind if you want that to be default. If you'd prefer, I could update the documentation about how someone could do that if they are not familiar.

[lomholdt]

I will have a look tomorrow! This is awesome!

[IanIsFluent]

I don't know about anyone else - but I will never want to copy one to my clipboard again once you add this. So for me, making this the default (w/keybinding) would obviously be better. But perhaps I'm unusual 😅

[heaths]

I'll at least update the README about changing keybindings. I'd rather avoid a breaking change, but considering other options. Perhaps Alt+Ctrl+{? I admit this would've been better in the first place when I added multi-selection support; though, I guess that support hasn't been out that long (this is where anonymous telemetry comes in handy). As I've been thinking about it, I don't see much point in inserting the same GUID at multiple places. Sure, there are cases, but probably fewer than inserting unique GUIDs. Hmm...

[heaths]

Another option is that I could make this a preference with a single command, and after the update to this version prompt if you want to make it the default. One could always change it in preferences then, or I could even make a new command to easily toggle the default.

[IanIsFluent]

I wonder if it's even worth creating a new extension, with that as the focus?

[heaths]

That would be chaotic, IMO. There's already several extensions that generate GUIDs - albeit like the very utility that shipped with VS that my extension aimed to replace and improve. Why add another? And since 1 line is a subset of multiple, it would still do the exact same thing as this one. What I'd prefer is a more NPM-like approach to VSCode extensions, like I opened at microsoft/vscode#37162.

I'm actually considering just changing this new behavior to be the default. I'll make a decision by tomorrow. There's several options, but I'm not sure keeping backward compatibility with a recent change most people probably don't even know about (wasn't really advertised) is worth it.

[heaths]

Checking on this history of the multi-select, I see this was indeed to replace a single GUID in multiple places, as called out in issue #9. So instead, I'll bind this to Alt+Ctrl+{, which serves two purposes.

1. Allows you quick access to insert 1 or more GUIDs.
2. Fixes issue Insert GUID shortcut is the same as the fold shortcut #12, so people could even unbind the current keyboard shortcut while retaining the ability to insert 1 or more GUIDs.