Magnar Sveen has another episode of his excellent Emacs Rocks up. In this video he talks about expand-region, an Emacs package that he wrote to help with marking text in an intelligent way. The video is less than 3 minutes so there’s no excuse not to take a look. As with all the Emacs Rocks videos, you won’t be sorry.
Watch the video and if you like what you see, get the code on github.
Truly a wonderful addition to my .emacs, thank you very much!
I know how Emacs works, I know I can make new functions on the fly,
and yet I find myself doing the same keys again and again.
This is exactly the kind of thing I should have dealt with a long time
ago: selecting words, sentences and S-expressions. Sure, isearch can
be quite handy, but expand-region is light-speed in comparison.