camel-select

A smarter selection for camelCase and snake_case.
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camel-select

A smarter selection for camelCase and snake_case.

Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product.

This Atom plugin changes the behavior of cursor movement when pressing the Ctrl/Cmd keys to a way that is friendlier on souce code that contains snake_case and camelCase by mimicking Eclipse's Smart Caret instead of Atom's "subword-boundary" behavior.

This simple and seemingly small difference makes a big impact while coding, especially for someone who works a lot with Eclipse due to muscle memory. Now switching between both editors feels like working on the same one.
An analogy: Vim users want Vim bindings on Atom.

Comparison of Atom's native behavior vs this plugin.

Movement is determined by categorizing characters in 5 groups, and instead of stopping at non-word characters, the cursor stops when there is a transition:

  • Lower case characters.
  • Upper case characters.
  • Boundary characters. From your config in Settings -> Editor -> Non Word Characters, plus _.
  • Space characters. (Those that match \s)
  • Neutral characters, the rest of them.

License

Apache 2.0; see LICENSE.md for details.