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Aren't multiple cursors and structural selection kinda standard fare these days? Even VSCode has "Expand Selection".

• hou32hou 2y ago
  Multi-cursor, yes; structural selection, not so much, they are more like an afterthought for most editors, there’s a big difference between being treated as first-class and second-class.
  • yencabulator 2y ago
    Can you describe what you think is the difference between Ki and the syntax tree based selection expanding that's been available in emacs for probably a decade or more?
    • hou32hou 2y ago
      Do you mind sharing the Emacs package that does "tree based selection expanding" so I can better highlight their differences?
      • yencabulator 2y ago
        I haven't been active in Emacs world for a couple of years, but https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el 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 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.