Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Yentzer
After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the solution I'm looking for so here goes. I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the extended keyboard and I'm trying to save my tennis elbow by not having to move my hands much. What I'm looking for is a

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Marshall Clow
On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Rick Yentzer ryent...@gmail.com wrote: After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the solution I'm looking for so here goes. I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the extended keyboard and I'm trying to save my

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread David Dierauer
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Rick Yentzer wrote: *snip* I'll use this as an example: *grunt-contrib-nodeunit * If my cursor is in the middle of the word contrib then I can double click to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script. If my cursor is in the middle of contrib and I want to

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Roland Küffner
Am 03.07.2013 um 15:36 schrieb Rick Yentzer ryent...@gmail.com: What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words until I get the selection I want. grunt-contrib-nodeunit If my cursor is in the middle of contrib and I want to select the text between the double

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Yentzer
Marshall, I'm looking for non mouse word selection. David, that is how I do it now, I was just hoping there was a faster way. I can't remember now but it seemed that in one editor I was able to expand my word selection by repeating a keyboard shortcut. That is what I had in mind. Roland and

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Roland Küffner
Am 03.07.2013 um 21:05 schrieb Rick Yentzer ryent...@gmail.com: Addition: Is there a script to select text between opening and closing tags? no script needed. See Balance in the View Menu and Balance Tags in the Markup Menu -Roland -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Yentzer
Palm to forehead! Thanks. Rick On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3:41:54 PM UTC-4, Roland Küffner wrote: Am 03.07.2013 um 21:05 schrieb Rick Yentzer ryen...@gmail.comjavascript:: Addition: Is there a script to select text between opening and closing tags? no script needed. See Balance in

Re: Select word

2013-07-03 Thread Oliver Taylor
On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:36, Rick Yentzer ryent...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words until I get the selection I want. I'll use this as an example: grunt-contrib-nodeunit If my cursor is in the middle of the word contrib then I can