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

One would need to write a function that would save the current selection, then try increasingly wide selections, until the new selection exceeds the saved one or selects all text. Some possible selections are:

• viW - select word
• vis - select sentence
• vip - select paragraph
• viB - select text within the innermost brackets
• v2iB - select text within the next most innermost brackets
• ggVG - select all text