expand-region package

expanding selection

Inspired by vim-expand-region

Features

• Support for multiple cursors.
• You can easily customize.
• Support for html tags.(emmet package is required.)

Keymap

No keymap by default.

edit ~/.atom/keymap.cson

'atom-text-editor':
  'alt-up': 'expand-region:expand'
  'alt-down': 'expand-region:shrink'

Customize selected regions

Follow the Atom guide on language-specific configuration to adjust how regions are selected per language. Edit ~/.atom/config.cson and use the default settings as a reference.

For example, if you want to select words with dashes first in CSS (instead of words without dashes), you could change your config.cson to something like:

'.source.css':
  'expand-region':
    commands: [
      # Note how `expand-region:select-word` is no longer here 
      # like it is in the defaults 
      {
        command: 'expand-region:select-word-include-dash',
        recursive: false
      }
      # etc... 
    ]

And now if you expanded while your cursor was—for example—between x and t in text-align, rather than selecting text first, you'd select the whole text-align property.

Other custom configs for inspiration:

• jsx