expand-region.el

Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units. (by magnars)

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  • Question for Meow users
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Feb 2023
    I don't use Meow, so this may be wildly off the mark (no pun) here. But I use and really like expand-region for selection and marking. With modal editing, I imagine it would be extremely fast and intuitive.
  • ts-movement: a package to navigate the tree-sitter syntax tree (supports multiple-cursors)
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Jan 2023
    I think the following packages would fit your wishlist, as it is very similar to mine. As mentioned in the replies, there is (https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el) and (https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate). I regularly use (https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens).
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Jan 2023
    Until combobulate comes out, classically I think most people uses expand-region. It generally works okay, but needs a lot of language specific logics to work perfectly. Only bringing it up in case you were unaware of it.
  • What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Jan 2023
    Paredit, Speed-of-thought lisp, Helm, perhaps Lispy but I am not using it myself. I found expand-region to work really well when writing and modifying elisp. lisp-extra-font-lock if you want some more blink (and font-lock-studio). Helpful is very good to have instead of built-in help, it displays the source code by default as well as symbol properties. It is a very informative learning experience to see how built-in stuff is implemented. I am quite lazy to press extra in built-in help to see the source code, but with Helpful, you get it auto in the same window, whicih is great for learning. Seeing symbol properties is sometimes a time saver so you don't have to M-: and type an Elisp function to see the symbol properties when debugging. Learn Edebug, it is very useful built-in application for Emacs Lisp development.
  • vanish.el: hide parts of a buffer
    8 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Aug 2022
    Exactly. Consider you have point in a table definition. You can programmatically find which org element you are in, at least for org-mode. Or in a defun for elisp-mode, a sentence or paragraf in plain text and so on. You could just press a shortcut, and based on major-mode you could find boundaries of the element and put it in hidden-list. It would be really fast to work that way. I don't know if it already exists in some package. Or you could go for somewhat easier version, and just check if a region is active, and if it is, hide region, and if not, hide current line, or based on mode, hide element at point. That way we can easily expand/contract region with er/expand-region and press a key to temporary hide/unhide it. It is not difficult to write a function to do that based on text properties. Thing-at-point might be useful here too.
  • Why not use Evil in 2022?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Apr 2022
    https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el is your friend. I use the built-in equivalent of it in IntelliJ all the time. it's a bit like a vi text objects in the simplest possible way.
  • Paredit Mnemonics for Slurping and Barfing Lisp Symbolic Expressions
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2022
    Thanks, I will give paredit a shot.

    I'm a regular emacs user, but I normally use expand-region[1] and cut/paste to edit lisp code. Expand-region usually knows what I want to move around after just one or two calls, only requires one key binding, and has visual feedback. And it works great in every language I have used.

    https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

  • Sharing my first emacs extension: csharpto.el
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Feb 2022
    One thing that I always missed is the ability to select a whole function in C#, but I thought I just didn't know the right package or it was something trivial to do ad-hoc. Surprisingly, up to these days I still couldn't find anything. I bumped into the expand-region package at some point, which is awesome, but still something was missing. After going through the Emacs Lisp Intro tutorial, I learned a bit how to search things in a buffer, and I was also editing csharp files every day, so I decided to try to implement the functions myself. Fast forward some weeks, here I am, with a smile on my face :)
  • Looking for evil-mode resources for non vim users emacs beginners
    10 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Oct 2021
    If you want to try out some third-party packages in the beginning, I think the most "bang-for-your-buck" you'll get is with Avy. Also, expand-region. And specifically for writing: olivetti-mode, flyspell, dictionary, and Nicolas Rougier's Nano and Elegant Emacs setups.
  • Effective and efficient text editing using Emacs (Alternative to Evil)
    11 projects | /r/emacs | 19 Aug 2021
    You will probably like expand-region.el. It is fantastic for selecting inside brackets, quotes, etc.
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