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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by hou32hou on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:30PM (#41507335)
Do you mind sharing the Emacs package that does "tree based selection expanding" so I can better highlight their differences?
Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by yencabulator on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @10:35AM (#41511776)
I haven't been active in Emacs world for a couple of years, but https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el has been there for a while. I think the new code is right in lsp-mode and called lsp-extend-selection.

VSCode has "Expand Selection".

Mathematica has ctrl-. (http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/syntax_tree_walk.html)

Zed has "select enclosing symbol" but that seems to jump to function level expansion immediately, I didn't see anything more gradual there.