terryma/vim-expand-region

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Vim plugin that lets you visually select increasingly larger regions of text using a single repeated key combination, similar to expand-region in Emacs or syntax-aware selection in IntelliJ. Expansion is driven by your own text objects, which can be customized globally or per filetype.

Use cases

• expand visual selection in vim with one key
• select enclosing element like IntelliJ in vim
• shrink selection in vim
• syntax-aware text selection in vim
• select inner brackets quotes or paragraphs incrementally
• customize which text objects selection expansion uses

When to choose

• you edit in Vim or Neovim and want incremental semantic selection
• you want selection expansion driven by your existing text objects
• you want a lightweight plugin with simple key mappings

When to avoid

• you use an IDE with built-in syntax-aware selection
• you don't use visual mode or text objects in Vim
• you need selection expansion in editors other than Vim

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

editor developer-tools text-editors developer-tools editor-plugin cross-platform vim text-selection text-objects visual-mode

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