What's new in Copy Word in Cursor 3.11

• Customizable Paste behavior
• Adds Translation/Localization support
• Adds Web support
• Adds Paste command
• Adds Workspace Trust support
• Adds Virtual Workspaces support
• Adds Remote Development support

Support

Copy Word in Cursor is an open source extension created for Visual Studio Code. While being free and open source, if you find it useful, please consider supporting it.

Copy Word in Cursor

It can replace the default Cut, Copy, and Paste commands, using the current word when no text is selected.

Features

Available commands

• Copy Word: Cut cut the current word
• Copy Word: Copy copy the current word
• Copy Word: Paste paste over the current word

Using as your default shortcuts

You only need to update your Keyboard Shortcuts.

Go to File / Preferences / Keyboard Shortcuts and add three new entries:

Windows/Linux

    { 
      "key": "Ctrl+c",          
      "command": "copy-word.copy",
      "when": "editorTextFocus"      
    },
    {
      "key": "Ctrl+x",          
      "command": "copy-word.cut",
      "when": "editorTextFocus" 
    },
    {
      "key": "Ctrl+v",
      "command": "copy-word.paste",
      "when": "editorTextFocus" 
    }

Mac

    { 
      "key": "Cmd+c",          
      "command": "copy-word.copy",
      "when": "editorTextFocus" 
    },
    { 
      "key": "Cmd+x",          
      "command": "copy-word.cut",
      "when": "editorTextFocus" 
    },
    { 
      "key": "Cmd+v",
      "command": "copy-word.paste",
      "when": "editorTextFocus" 
    }

Available Settings

• Use original Cut/Copy behavior when no text is selected and no current word is defined (false by default)

    "copyWord.useOriginalCopyBehavior": true

• Indicates the behavior of the Paste command (choose between original, replaceWordAtCursor or replaceWordAtCursorWhenInTheMiddleOfTheWord)

    "copyWord.pasteWordBehavior": "replaceWordAtCursor"

Let's suppose you are pasting bbb, in the following scenario:

cursor located at |	original	replaceWordAtCursor	replaceWordAtCursorWhenInTheMiddleOfTheWord
|aaaa	bbbbaaaa	bbbb	bbbbaaaa
aaaa|	aaaabbbb	bbbb	aaaabbbb
aa|aa	aabbbbaa	bbbb	bbbb

Contributors

Special thanks to the people that have contributed to the project:

• (@Krysl) - Add configuration to change how Paste command overwrite words (see PR)
• (@dudeNumber4) - Use original Cut/Copy behavior when no text is selected and no current word is defined (see PR)
• (@dudeNumber4) - Add Paste support (see PR)

License

MIT © Alessandro Fragnani