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Text selection on OSX

#1

In OSX (maybe other OS’s) you can select text in the following manner:
When you double-click on a piece of text you can extend the selection by using the Shift key and either the Right or Left Arrow key.
The initial arrow-key press determines the direction of the selection (right or the left), when more text is selected.

I hope my explanation makes sense.

This feature works everywhere in OSX and I love the intuitive way it works.
I really really miss this in ST. (Even works in BBEdit)
Perhaps it’s a setting I haven’t found yet, but if it is not available I would like to request this feature. (I posted it here before I make an official request on Echo)

Bart

ps. Just learned about Sublime Text last week and absolutely love it. Thank you, thank you!!

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#2

Sublime doesn’t support this behaviour out of the box. It could be added as a plugin, but it’s very hard to distinguish selections made with the mouse from other selections, so you may run into trouble there.

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