Brett, this is a very nice collection of text selection shortcuts. I learned a couple of interesting tricks. Thanks.
There is, however, something that I really miss in Sublime Text's 3 text selection capabilities:
I'd be really useful for me to be able to extend the selection to include the next word to the right of the current one.
The way I would like this to work is as follow: pressing once the shortcut associated with this new command would select the word under the cursor (same behaviour as the command + d shortcut).
Hiting the shortcut again would expand the selection to also include the word located to the right of the currently selected one.
Does anybody know how to achieve this? I guess it is possible to write a plugin, but I'm not experienced enough in Sublime's plugin architecture to achieve this right now.
It would be easy enough to do with just a Macro, but ⌥⇧→ (or ^⇧→ to select to word separators) works fine for me. The thing you lose is the "select all" capability that ⌘D has, meaning that when you run it, every instance of that word is highlighted. If you extend the selection at that point, you have to use ^⌘G to get that back.
I also use on a daily basis ⌘E: feed search field with currently selected text. While ⌘D and ⌘^G sidestep the search field altogether for searching in the currently active document, ⌘E is handy for taking a string as a starting point for a search string that you want to edit and for multi-file search.
Thanks for this. I had no idea these existed. Or maybe I forgot they existed.
I guess I should RTFM ( http://www.sublimetext.com/... ) regularly, perhaps once a month until I stop learning useful things.
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