Visual Studio column selection - Select by word, not square











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This seems like something I would have found hundreds of topics on. Yet I didn't find a single one. I wonder if noone cares or if I just overlooked something obvious.



In Visual Studio when you select a column and want to select the word your cursor is at in each line, when you do CTRL + SHIFT + (ARROW KEY), then it doesn't select by word as it SHOULD, but instead it selects a square.





BAD BEHAVIOUR (which VS has):



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GOOD BEHAVIOUR (which would be expected, and is in every other IDE):



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The Visual Studio ALT select is rendered useless in half the cases, actually in every case where you don't have the "coordinates" precisely the same on every line.



Please let me know if you got some idea or solution. 63x thanks.










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    This seems like something I would have found hundreds of topics on. Yet I didn't find a single one. I wonder if noone cares or if I just overlooked something obvious.



    In Visual Studio when you select a column and want to select the word your cursor is at in each line, when you do CTRL + SHIFT + (ARROW KEY), then it doesn't select by word as it SHOULD, but instead it selects a square.





    BAD BEHAVIOUR (which VS has):



    enter image description here





    GOOD BEHAVIOUR (which would be expected, and is in every other IDE):



    enter image description here





    The Visual Studio ALT select is rendered useless in half the cases, actually in every case where you don't have the "coordinates" precisely the same on every line.



    Please let me know if you got some idea or solution. 63x thanks.










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      This seems like something I would have found hundreds of topics on. Yet I didn't find a single one. I wonder if noone cares or if I just overlooked something obvious.



      In Visual Studio when you select a column and want to select the word your cursor is at in each line, when you do CTRL + SHIFT + (ARROW KEY), then it doesn't select by word as it SHOULD, but instead it selects a square.





      BAD BEHAVIOUR (which VS has):



      enter image description here





      GOOD BEHAVIOUR (which would be expected, and is in every other IDE):



      enter image description here





      The Visual Studio ALT select is rendered useless in half the cases, actually in every case where you don't have the "coordinates" precisely the same on every line.



      Please let me know if you got some idea or solution. 63x thanks.










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      This seems like something I would have found hundreds of topics on. Yet I didn't find a single one. I wonder if noone cares or if I just overlooked something obvious.



      In Visual Studio when you select a column and want to select the word your cursor is at in each line, when you do CTRL + SHIFT + (ARROW KEY), then it doesn't select by word as it SHOULD, but instead it selects a square.





      BAD BEHAVIOUR (which VS has):



      enter image description here





      GOOD BEHAVIOUR (which would be expected, and is in every other IDE):



      enter image description here





      The Visual Studio ALT select is rendered useless in half the cases, actually in every case where you don't have the "coordinates" precisely the same on every line.



      Please let me know if you got some idea or solution. 63x thanks.







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