Your post clued me in.

Scintilla has commands associated with word part navigation. However I’m not sure if Notepad++ exposes these to be mapped to shortcuts or not.

@Earth-Invader

They are:

Cheers.

@earth-invader

IMO that behavior isn’t all that useful.
But…there is no native support for it in N++, AFAIK.
However, it would be easy to script such a thing.

Scintilla has commands associated with word part navigation. However I’m not sure if Notepad++ exposes these to be mapped to shortcuts or not.

It is not that simple.

Well, it is…on a demo basis…to try some basic functionality out…

But yes, really what is needed here is a “script” that can build in all the “smarts” that are needed.

1. Ignore what @alan-kilborn said!
2. Pay attention to what @alan-kilborn said!

Expanding:

Make a macro of what @Neil-Schipper said…

I can see that inability to search left/up as being something of a dealbreaker in this context (which reminds that a regex that searched backwards, even if dumbed down somewhat {when used in that direction, and with limitations well documented}, would find good use).

… script such a thing.

This is the way to go.

It is not that simple.

I just tried recorded a macro Atl+L that simulate pressing Ctrl+L a few times. (jump to left across a few words)

When I hold Shift + Alt + L, it doesn’t not select the characters that it jump over.
The behaviour is just different from what a native subword navigation would do.
If I need to record all the combinations, that would also be a lot of work .
e.g. Shift to select, Backspace, Delete, Home, End, …

Thanks for the workaround but it could probably be more troublesome for me to remember another shortcut

Make a macro of what @Neil-Schipper said, then assign the running of the macro to whatever keycombo you want using the ShortcutMapper. If you map it to what you’re used to with other editors, then what’s to remember??

<one upper case char><a run of lower case chars>

is needed. Expression: (?-i)\u\l+

This has some limitations which can be overcome, but first want to know if you’re interested.

It is not about searching certain symbol.

Here is a gif to show how it works:

GIF link

If you want to try it, expression is \\[|{|\(|<

IMO that behavior isn’t all that useful.
But…there is no native support for it in N++, AFAIK.
However, it would be easy to script such a thing.

For example, when holding down Alt key and press L/R, the text cursor will jump like these:

MetaCard<|>SpecialBonus // <|> is the cursor position
MetaCardSpecial<|>Bonus // Alt + Right
Meta<|>CardSpecialBonus // Alt + Left + Left
MetaCardSpecialBonus<|> // Alt + End
MetaCardSpecial<|> // Alt + Del

• there is no space in “MetaCardSpecialBonus”, its usually a function or variable name.

Many text editors that support code editing has some degree of subword navigation support already. e.g. Atom, sublime.

What is a “subword”, and what kind of support should Notepad++ give you while navigating it?