Select Word

Tolken Sak

Please, make a function that select the word under the cursor. Many other editors already have this function.

Alan Kilborn

Ummm…double click the word with the mouse?

Alan Kilborn

But if you are looking for something that can select the current word via a keycombination, I think that Notepad++ alone cannot do it. But you can do it via scripting. Let us know if you need that type of solution.

guy038

Hello, @tolken-sak, @alan-kilborn and All,

In order to select the current word, where cursor is located inside, you have to produce these two shortcuts, successively :

Ctrl + Left Arrow
Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow

Now, to get a single shortcut, for that selection, just create a macro, which will be executed by a user shortcut !

Best Regards,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said:

where cursor is located inside

It’s actually the “caret”, but no matter… :)

So inside is rather key. I found that if you are right at the start of a word, this macro will select the word to the left of the desired word. Oh, well, nothing is perfect. :)

PeterJones

Looking at the Scintilla documentation, there’s SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT, which says “If the current selection is empty then select word around caret”. Unfortunately, that’s not in the Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Scintilla Commands list. Looking at the Scintilla History, that command was added in Scintilla 3.5.7, but Notepad++ uses Scintilla 3.5.6: if Don had done one more update, that command could have been in the Shortcut Mapper. Sigh.

But @guy038’s macro-suggestion should be workable for you.