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Select text wrapped in quotation marks

Is it possible to select text wrapped in quotation marks or other signs in PhpStorm (2016)?

I.e. 

"Here is some code"

When I use shortcut I want to select all what is in quotation marks.

Solution

  • This depends on the context: what the actual language is. It works fine for PHP & JavaScript but does not seem to do anything special in HTML (as " are treated as part of the actual text).

    1. Place caret inside of such a string.

    2. Use Edit | Extend Selection (Ctrl + W on Windows/Linux using Default keymap; on Mac it most likely will be Alt + Arrow Up or similar)

    3. You will need to use that shortcut a few times in a row (at least 2 times if there are more than one word in a string) until it selects the whole string content. That's because this shortcut works in incremental mode: first the current word, then the whole sentence or other outer code construction and so on (each language can provide own boundaries of the "block").