Select Stuff

Balance Jr

Created by Thomas Aylott

Select the most obvious thing. Try it.

• Balance Jr Back — HOME
• Balance Jr Forward — END

Select Folding Group

Created by Thomas Aylott

Select the current folding group. Undoable.
⌘Z moves your cursor back to its previous location.

• Select Folding Group — ⌃F1

Select Balanced Tags

Created by Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Select the current HTML / XML tag or its contents.
Repeatable. Keep running the command to select the next parent tag.

• Select Balanced (HT|X)ML Tags — ⇧⌘B
• Select Content of Balanced (HT|X)ML Tags — ⌥⇧⌘B

To make this work you'll have to install HTML::Parser for Perl. Run this from the terminal:

sudo -H cpan -i HTML::Parser