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Regex-based

Line​

Keybinding: e

In this selection mode h/l behaves exactly like j/k, and the selection is trimmed, which means that the leading and trailing spaces of each line are not selected.

This is usually used in conjunction with i/a to immediately enter insert mode at the first/last non-whitespace symbol of the current line.

Full Line​

Keybinding: E

Same as Line, however, leading whitespaces are selected, and trailing whitespaces, including newline characters are also selected.

Sub Word​

Keybinding: b

This selects sub words, even if these words are not separated by spaces.

For example, myOatPepperBanana consists of 4 short words, namely: my, Oat, Pepper and Banana.

This is useful for renaming identifiers, especially if we only want to change a single word of the name. 1

It is also useful when we want to modify the content of a literal string because the Token selection mode skips every word in a literal string.

Word​

Keybinding: w

Like Word, but it treats each word as a sequence of alphanumeric characters (including - and _).

Column​

Keybinding: z

In this selection mode, the movements behave like the usual editor, where Previous/Next means left/right, and so on.

First/Last means the first/last column of the current line.

Footnotes​

  1. This is possible because even Prompt is an editor, so the Word mode also works there. See Core Concepts ↩