Expand selection to word/phrase/etc? about obsidian-editor-shortcuts HOT 3 OPEN

Not at the moment, but I can look into how achievable that could be – follow along here: https://github.com/timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts/projects/1#card-83261606.

As a first step, I'd like to get quotes and brackets incrementally expanding, as discussed in #21. That should hopefully pave the way for other types of expansions.

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Most of these are already supported by this plugin, for instance:

• Word: Select word (from a cursor, it will expand to the current word)
• Quotes/brackets: Expand selection to quotes or brackets
• Entire line: Select line

For selecting sentences, you may find https://github.com/timhor/obsidian-sentence-navigator useful.

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They are supported, but not unified under a single keyboard shortcut, for example, I can bind ^W to Select word and hit it to go from foo b|ar baz to foo |bar| baz, but then hitting it a second time does nothing (instead of expanding again to |foo bar baz| like I expect). I'd have to bind three different keystrokes rather than continually hit the same key, as other code editors' implementations work.

Is there a way to get it to progressively widen as I hit a shortcut repeatedly?

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