cursorWordLeft and cursorWordLeftSelect do not behave consistently

[brian-mann]

Issue Type: Bug

Given the following keybindings...

{
  "key": "alt+left",
  "command": "cursorWordLeft",
  "when": "inputFocus"
},
{
  "key": "shift+alt+left",
  "command": "cursorWordLeftSelect",
  "when": "inputFocus"
}

Moving from right to left using cursorWordLeft moves the cursor like so...

this.is.a.test|
this.is.a.|test
this.is.|a.test
this.|is.a.test
|this.is.a.test

This is great - this is exactly what I want.

However moving from right to left with select using cursorWordLeftSelect moves the cursor like so...

this.is.a.test|
this.is.a.|test
this.is.a|.test
this.is.|a.test
this.is|.a.test
this.|is.a.test
this|.is.a.test
|this.is.a.test

It takes 7 keystrokes using select vs the 4 you get with just regular cursor word left.

Note: this bug applies ONLY to moving from right to left. Moving the opposite direction with select works perfectly fine.

VS Code version: Code 1.34.0 (a622c65, 2019-05-15T21:59:22.738Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 18.5.0

[victorteokw]

Hi @brian-mann, this is interesting and I think they do this by design. How about having a toggle setting in the setting to toggle the behavior? It's by default behaves like normal and when it's on, it behaves exactly what you want: always move active point of the selection one char left or right regardless where the anchor point is.

[brian-mann]

I don't think this is by design - because moving from left to right works identically with both cursor movements and the movements with select.

In fact - I'm pretty sure this is behaving as the cursorMoveEndLeft, which is wrong because they are supposed to behave differently.