New subject: [Geany] selecting text between brackets (was revisiting keybindings)

6 Sep 2007


      In another thread, Nick wrote:
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John wrote:
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Shift-Alt-B -- select text between innermost matching brackets

(**who snuck this in here? ;)**). It does seem to go rather well with
Shift-Alt-{W,L,P} though...
I'm thinking of adding something like 'select scope' which uses the
current fold level. Or did you mean () brackets for selecting e.g. an
argument list for a function?
Not sure what you mean by "fold level". I meant "brackets" in the
general sense ( [], {}, () ). That is, you've got text that looks
like:
{
    [
        hello
        func(foo bar baz)
    ]
    bye
}
and you've got your cursor on the "bar", then you hit Shift-Alt-B and
get "foo bar baz" selected. For extra geek points for Geany, if you
hit Shift-Alt-B again, the selection would expand to get "func" and
"hello" also (including the parentheses) -- and tap it again to get
the "bye" (and square brackets) in there too.
---John