kakoune-expand-region

kakoune plugin that allows you to select increasingly larger regions of text using the same key combination.

It aims to be similar to features from other editors:

• Vim's expand region
• Emac's expand region
• IntelliJ's syntax aware selection
• Eclipse's select enclosing element

Warning: this project is still in beta.

Install

Add expand-region.kak to your autoload dir: ~/.config/kak/autoload/.

Usage

Run the expand command successively.

# Suggested mapping

map global normal + :expand<ret>

Related commands

Here are two simple linewise commands that your may also find useful:

def grow-selection %{
  exec '<a-:>L<a-;>H'
}

def shrink-selection %{
  exec '<a-:>H<a-;>L'
}

See Also

• kakoune-expand: this alternative version made by occivink offers the :expand-repeat command.
• kak-tree: use the tree-select-parent-node command to traverse the AST.
• kakoune-grasp: AST selector specific to JavaScript

Licence

MIT