Feature request: Extend Selection

[JoshKasap]

Example scenario

Take the following text

I want to select these at the same time

• statustext="Unauthorized"
• statustext="Internal Server Error"

I start by double clicking statustext for first tag then hitting ctrl + d followed by shift + right arrow twice

• This should select statustext=" for both lines

I then hit ctrl + k followed by " (AKA shift + ')

• this selects the inside content of both but it loses the previous selection
  • so this is selected
    • Unauthorized
    • Internal Server Error
  • but i would like a way to make it so that this is selected instead (AKA expand so previous selection is included)
    • statustext="Unauthorized
    • statustext="Internal Server Error

Then i would just have to do a shift + right arrow once more to complete the selection for both.

Possible resolutions

• I feel like the most user friendly way to accomplish this do this would be to allow the user to extend the selection by doing ctrl + k followed by + ctrl + shift + '

• if that's not possible maybe maybe ctrl + k for normal selections and ctrl+l for extension selections? (except ctrl + l) i think already has a shortcut binding so prob would need to use another. But idk if it's possible to have multiple separate modifier type shortcut key bindings the way ctrl + k works. If not then this also prob won't work

• is it possible to make a 3 way binding like ctrl + k + shift + e + shift + ' so this would be like entering shift e to exten selection and then shift + ' to select between "

• if that's not possible maybe worst case we allow random bindings for extend selections. so like ctrl + k + ctrl+u expands selection to inclode content between "

• of course if you can think of other ways to accomplish this it would also be really nice.