gildorwang / SublimeExpandNext

An enhancement of the expand command (ctrl+d) which supports special characters.

SublimeExpandNext

What it does

A replacement of the built-in expand command (ctrl+d) which does not work when I have modified word_separators to make some special characters become valid word contents. This plugin will expand properly to include the special characters in the word.

Features

1. Expands to whole word when there's no selection, or selects the next occurrence when something is already selected, just like the built-in command find_under_expand.
2. Easier to control if it should match whole word, or also accept part of a word, with the whole_word parameter.
3. When skip_last is true, it has the same behavior as the built-in command find_under_expand_skip.

How to use

1. Put expand_next.py under the packages folder (e.g. Data\Packages\User).
2. Modify the keymap to use this:

{ "keys": ["alt+e"], "command": "expand_next", "args": {"skip_last": false, "whole_word": true}},
{ "keys": ["alt+shift+e"], "command": "expand_next", "args": {"skip_last": true, "whole_word": true}},
{ "keys": ["alt+o"], "command": "expand_next", "args": {"skip_last": false, "whole_word": false}},
{ "keys": ["alt+shift+o"], "command": "expand_next", "args": {"skip_last": true, "whole_word": false}},

License

MIT License

Notice

The code to escape regex properly is inspired by plugin WordHighlight when I noticed it continued to work correctly after I introduced special characters.