Select Part Of Word

An extension that allows you to move selection by a word in camel-case string. This comes especially handy if you want to fix a typo in the middle of the variable, or just reword a part of it.

Demo

Features

Support for unicode characters.
Support for multiple selections.

Default Hotkeys

Hotkey	Description
`CTRL+ALT+RIGHT`	Move caret to the next word
`CTRL+ALT+LEFT`	Move caret to the previous word
`CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+RIGHT`	Expands selection to the next word
`CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+LEFT`	Expands selection to the previous word
`CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE`	Removes previous word
`CTRL+ALT+DELETE` (`CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+DELETE` on Windows)	Removes next word

Looking For Feedback

Please note that this extension is in rather early stage of development.

Source Code

This extension is fully open source, available at https://github.com/mlewand/vscode-select-part-of-word.

Getting In Touch

You can always ping me at Twitter @m_lewand.

License

The code is distributed under MIT license.

Image at assets/icon.svg distributed under Creative Commons license, obtained from Wikimedia Commons.

Select part of word

Marek Lewandowski