the Goal of sMetaWord is providing different kinds of words based cursorMove/Select/Delete commands.
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| word type |
description |
| SpaceWord(BigWord) |
characters separated by 'space'('Space' or 'Tab') |
| Word |
a group of alphanumeric character with underscore and (A-Za-z0-9_) or a group of other symbol characters(i.e. ~!@#$%^&*()-+:;"',.<>/?[]{}) |
| WordPart(SmallWord) |
a group of spaces, a part in a group of CamelCase (A-Za-z0-9) characters, a part of '_' connected (A-Za-z0-9) characters, or a group of other symbol characters |
- shift+backspace: delete all from the cursor to the line start.
- shift+del: delete all from the cursor to the line end.
Word commands to moveCursor/select/delete by word
we use the default vscode 'Word' commands
note:
default vscode cursorWordEndRight command would do this:
'|console|.log|(err|)|' and 'a|+=| 3| +5|-3| +| 7|' (if there is only one symbol character before the next word, the cursor would not stop after the symbol)
default vscode cursorWordStartLeft command would do this:
'this|.|is|.|a|.|test' and ' text| a|+=| 3| +|5|-|3| +| 7|' (work as expected)
default deleteWordLeft command would do this:
'|this.|is.|a.|test'(<=star from here, if there is only one symbol character after the previous word, the cursor would not stop and delete it with the previous word together)
default deleteWordRight command would do this:
'|this|.|is|.|a|.|test|' (work as expected)
- ctrl+left/right: left/right move cursor to word start/end.
- ctrl+shift+left/right: left/right select from cursor to word start/end.
- ctrl+backspace/delete: left/right delete from cursor to word start/end.
Note: one Mac, the cursorWord* commands are not mapped, you may need to map them by your self.
WordPart commands to moveCursor/select/delete by wordPart
Examples: ABCdef__ghIJKL
- when forward:
- '|AB|Cdef|__gh|IJKL|'
- '|AB|Cdef|__ghijkl|'
- when backward:
- '|AB|Cdef__|gh|IJKL|' (<-start from end)
character
note: the difference at the word connector('_') dd dd
- ctrl+alt+left/right: move cursor left/right to the wordPart start/end.
- ctrl+alt+shift+left/right: left/right select from cursor to the wordPart start/end.
- ctrl+alt+backspace: left delete to the wordPart start.
- on windows ctrl+alt+shift+backspace: right delete to the wordPart end.(note:
ctrl+alt+del on windows is a system shortcut, we could not use it)
on Mac use ctrl+alt+delete
SpaceWord commands to moveCursor/select/delete word separated by space:
win/cmd+alt+left/right: move cursor left/right by one space-word and set cursor at the begin/end of the word.
win/cmd+alt+shift+left/right: select to left/right by one space-word.
win/cmd+alt+backspace: delete one space-word left.
win/cmd+alt+del: delete one space-word right.
win/cmd+alt+home/end: move cursor left/right by one space-word and set cursor at the begin/end of the spaces surrounding the word.
win/cmd+alt+shift+home/end: select to left/right by one space-word, spaces before/after the word is selected too.
win/cmd+alt+shift+backspace: delete one space-word left, spaces before the word are also deleted.
win/cmd+alt+shift+del: delete one space-word right, spaces after the word are also deleted.
Note
we modified several default command vscode command's shortcut, because we want to use it to do word based cursorMove/select/delete.
ctrl+alt+left/right by default is used by "workbench.action.moveEditorToPreviousGroup/NextGroup", so we assign ctrl+k ctrl+left/right to do the editor movement.ctrl+alt+shift+left/right by default is used by "cursorColumnSelectLeft/Right" command, we think of a solution to do column based vertical selection:
alt+v: toggle vertical column selection mode.
alt+v to enter vertical column selection model, then press shift+left/right/up/down as needed to do column mode selection.
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