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.

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

Hotkeys Customization

This extension overrides several VSCode default hotkeys, like CTRL+ALT+RIGHT hotkey which is bound to workbench.action.moveEditorToNextGroup command (as of VSCode 1.10.2).

If you'd like to use a different hotkey refer to Visual Studio Code's Key Bindings Customization article. All the contributed commands starts with selectPartOfWord.

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.