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Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2012-08-10 · latest 2024-09-11

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  1. I haven't been active in Emacs world for a couple of years, but https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el has been there for a while. I think the new code is right in lsp-mode and called lsp-extend-selection. VSCode has "Expand…
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-09-11 · in Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor
  2. …one key binding, and has visual feedback. And it works great in every language I have used. [1] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el
    comment by clircle · 2022-03-12 · in Paredit mnemonics for slurping and barfing Lisp symbolic expressions
  3. …do have a couple typos / mis-compiles but that's sort of par for the course. Hope you enjoy! [1] - https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el
    comment by escherize · 2017-06-22 · in Frame-Based Editing [pdf]
  4. …(the interface to Git) https://github.com/abo-abo/avy (jumping around) https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el (marking stuff) https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el (placing cursors at similar stuff and editing all a
    comment by Expez · 2015-08-18 · in Parens of the Dead
  5. …works? If you want to visual select sexp from symbol and expanding outward, uses expand-region: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el . Same for string. Then you can use smartparens: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens to wrap…
    comment by tuhdo · 2015-04-17 · in Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
  6. https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el is a nice addition, especially for non-sexp languages. It's like Mathematica's "C-."
    comment by auganov · 2014-11-26 · in The Animated Guide to Emacs Paredit
  7. For my fellow emacs users, our version (by Magnar Sveen) is here: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el
    comment by jamesjporter · 2013-03-30 · in Show HN: vim-expand-region - Incremental visual selection in Vim
  8. …er/mark-python-block er/mark-python-block-and-decorator er/mark-outer-python-block) [1] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el or from ELPA [2] http://emacsrocks.com/e09.html
    comment by shabble · 2013-03-02 · in Show HN: Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text
  9. …[2] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm [3] http://www.emacswiki.org/MiniMap [4] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e09.html
    comment by osener · 2012-08-10 · in My next text editor