Bug 23080

Summary:	[typing] action for selecting word under cursor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andrew Utkin <cindrhc>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	blakesys, dchaffiol, deepakazad, gfrancis1, kruegerm-eclipse, Lars.Vogel, markus.kell.r, ndeane01, nikolaymetchev, priest, remy.suen, rohanrhu2
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	helpwanted, usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Andrew Utkin

2002-09-02 09:20:53 EDT

Is it possible to accelerate selection the word under cursor? 
it is not enough to use mouse for this operation. keyboard shortcat is needed 
too.

Comment 1 Jacob Robertson

2005-10-26 16:15:27 EDT

JBuilder has this, and has had it for at least 6 years.

Control-W if I remember correctly.

I miss this all the time.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2007-03-12 07:50:31 EDT

*** Bug 50758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2008-07-30 12:44:55 EDT

*** Bug 242590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 George Francis

2008-12-10 16:43:24 EST

Try Alt+Shift+Up

Comment 5 Markus Keller

2008-12-11 04:54:43 EST

> Try Alt+Shift+Up

This only works in the Java editor, where the element tree for Edit > Expand Selection To > ... is determined by the AST.

In text editors, a default implementation could expand by
word / line / paragraph (lines separated by multiple line breaks) / document.

Comment 6 Arthur Blake

2010-06-29 09:25:53 EDT

I am dumbfounded at how many years have gone by without eclipse having this really basic keyboard shortcut!

Comment 7 Michael J. Krueger

2011-01-02 14:44:54 EST

Though I understand that there are higher priorities, I am also amazed that this has not been implemented yet.  The functionality already exists and is bound "double left click"; however, it would be very useful to select the current word without having to use the mouse!

Any serious programmer's editor must support the binding of simple actions like this to keyboard shortcuts.  Constantly switching back and forth between keyboard and mouse is inefficient.

Comment 8 Oğuzhan Eroğlu

2019-08-17 14:25:46 EDT

Why this is not implemented since 2002?