I think whether the keyboard is "better" than the mouse depends to a degree on where and what you're selecting. If I want to start the selection at or very clos

I think whether the keyboard is "better" than the mouse depends to a degree on where and what you're selecting. If I want to start the selection at or very close to where the cursor is at the moment, I'm going to use the keyboard; if it's somewhere else on the screen, though, the mouse might well be quicker. (I just experienced both of those when I wanted to change the last phrase in that last sentence, and the cursor was all the way at the bottom of this comment, then wanted to edit something just one line above. The latter case, keyboard; the former case, mouse.) > Use correct meta or home/end key along with shift and arrow key to select the entire line, based on your platform of choice. Ideally this is just one command, I think, like Cmd/Ctrl+L for "select current line". :) > I'd like to see some more intelligent selection hotkeys though. JumpingBetweenCamelCase, "everything inside the quotes" { data:'inside', the:'braces'} The only editor that I've found that does both of those out of the box is BBEdit for the Mac, which uses Ctrl+left/right and Opt+left/right to navigate and select by word but Ctrl stops for camelCase and underscore breaks while Opt doesn't. And Cmd+B, "Balance," selects text between enclosing characters in the current scope: brackets, parentheses, quote marks, etc. I'm not sure why equivalents to these aren't more common in other editors.