Is there a shortcut for selecting word under cursor in Sublime Text, Atom

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Is there a shortcut or a command to select word under cursor in Sublime Text or Atom? I want a replacement for double-click. So I could press shortcut instead and get selection on a current word and start typing to replace it or get in quotes etc...

score 156 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '16 at 13:50

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command+d on OSX

control+d on Windows/Linux

You can find all the default keybindings by going to Preferences > Keybindings - Default and perusing the list.

edited Mar 13 '16 at 13:50

phuclv

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answered Jul 29 '12 at 19:01

Liam Cain

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Inaddition to select a word. You can select the words enclosed in quotes with **SHIFT + CMD + SPACE** . It does more, check **Selection -> Expand selection to scope** – palaniraja Jul 30 '12 at 09:00
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Great, I was under impression you have to select the word first for Cmd-D to work. – firedev Aug 06 '12 at 18:49

score 18 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '13 at 01:38

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You can add a key binding to select the word:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+w"], "command": "expand_selection", "args": {"to": "word"} }

Unlike the find_under_expand command (control+d by default) repeated presses won't add cursors at matching words.

answered Apr 29 '13 at 01:38

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Thanks for this! This was nagging me for years, that you don't always want `Ctrl+d` to select next word, but sometimes to just expand the selection to the whole word from its part. – certainlyakey Apr 29 '16 at 07:19

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 22:46

install ExpandRegion if you want to expand the selection:

Expand selection to word
Expand selection to quotes (content only)
Expand selection to quotes (with quotes)
Expand selection to complete self closing tag
Expand selection to parent node content
Expand selection to complete node
Expand selection to parent node content

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score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 30 '13 at 21:49

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I looked around for this and eventually came up with this, which I assigned to ctrl-F

you need to paste it into a new user plugin python file

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class find_under_cursor(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
    def run(self):
        view = self.window.active_view()
        view.run_command("expand_selection", {"to": "word"}) 
        view.run_command("slurp_find_string")
        self.window.run_command("show_panel", {"panel": "find", "reverse": False} )

edited Sep 30 '13 at 21:49

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answered Sep 30 '13 at 21:12

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Welcome to the site! No need to sign your name, your name is already there on every post. – Kevin Panko Sep 30 '13 at 21:34

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

With Vim bindings (Vintage or vintageous)

* - to find next
# - to find last
For both, all matches are highlighted

Without Vim bindings

For current file: CMD+E, CMD+F, Enter
Explanation:
CMD+E - copies the word under cursor
CMD+F - bring up find in local file dialogue
Enter - er you know what this means

Substitute CMD+F for CMD+SHIFT+F to find in all files in project (or whatever search range you specify)

Is there a shortcut for selecting word under cursor in Sublime Text, Atom

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With Vim bindings (Vintage or vintageous)

Without Vim bindings