Is there a way to emulate ReSharper's “extend selection” feature in Vim?

Question

ReSharper has a nice feature called \"extend selection\": by pressing CTRL+W (I think this is the default) repeatedly, you select more and more from your current ca

Answer 1

I had a quick go at this problem. It doesn't work as is. Feel Free to make edits and post on the vim wiki or as a plugin if you get it refined.

chances are you'd want to make a g:resharp_list for each language (eg. one for paranthesised languages, etc.)

All that is needed is a marker for the original cursor position :he markers and a timeout autocommand that resets the index.

"resharp emulator
"TODO this needs a marker
"also c-w is bad mapping as it has a lag with all the other-
"window mappings
"
let g:resharp_index = 0

let g:resharp_select =  ['iw', 'is', 'ip', 'ggVG']

func! ResharpSelect()
    if g:resharp_index >= len (g:resharp_select)
        let g:resharp_index = 0
    endif

    exe "norm \v" . g:resharp_select[g:resharp_index]
    let g:resharp_index = g:resharp_index + 1
endfun

nnoremap   :call ResharpSelect()
vnoremap   :call ResharpSelect()

"Something to reset on timeout. TODO this doesn't work
au CursorHold :let g:resharp_index = 0