Adding selection

[Randalix]

I did the tutor, but I'm missing / not getting how to select two different words.

--> Everybody wants to be a bat,

How can I select Everybody and bat? My goal is to switch 2 words wich is done by Alt-( I think. But I was not able to try that yet, because I can't select both at the same time.

Thanks in advance for your help .

[the-mikedavis]

For this case you could select the line and subselect (s) on the regex (Everybody|bat).

Marks (#3720) would be another way to approach this. On that branch you could select "Everybody" with any sort of navigation, use ^s to save that selection to the marker register, select "bat" with any sort of navigation, then use ^ca to append the saved selection.

[dbarnett]

I've used some multi-cursor editors where you could ctrl+click (with the mouse) to add an additional cursor. Would a paradigm like that ever be an option, where you could place the cursor on "Everybody", ctrl+click on "bat", and then type e to select both words to end-of-word?

[the-mikedavis]

That is already implemented: you can use alt and click and drag to create new selections

[dbarnett]

Hmm, is there any setting that could be related, or some terminals that work better than others for alt modifier? I can't seem to get that to work, alt+click just moves the cursor to the beginning of whatever line I click on instead of adding a selection.

[the-mikedavis]

Alt typically needs to be enabled when working on macOS #2469

[dbarnett]

Oh thanks, I was trying to use it on a Chromebook actually, but that apparently has a similar issue swallowing alt-click: https://support.google.com/chromebook/thread/14888778/how-do-i-disable-the-alt-click-from-opening-the-right-click-context-menu-on-the-os-and-websites. Is that shortcut configurable by any chance, or would it be possible to provide an alternate key through e.g. the space menu for that?

[Randalix]

Thanks for the quick answer and the great work. Really like the project <3