# terryma/vim-expand-region

Vim plugin that allows you to visually select increasingly larger regions of text using the same key combination.

Repository: https://github.com/terryma/vim-expand-region
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vim-expand-region
Language: Vim Script
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-28T01:56:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4904, "days_push": 797, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1126, forks 45 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:41.154844+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: editor, developer-tools
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: vim, text-selection, text-objects, visual-mode

## Member repositories
- terryma/vim-expand-region (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.154844+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:39:13.990607+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/terryma/vim-expand-region (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:41.154844+00:00, sha f409d916bfc4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.