I'm looking for an IDE/code editor plugin that allows you to select text outwards from the cursor in both directions.
Eg: I have the following text in my IDE:
Mississippi
I place my cursor in the middle of the word Mississippi:
Missis|sippi
Now I want to hold a hot-key combination (e.g. Alt+Shift) to essentially lock my cursor in place...and then I want to press the left arrow key 6 times to select "Missis" to the left of my cursor......and press the right arrow key 5 times to select "sippi" to the right of my cursor.
Normally by using Shift+Arrow key...you move the cursor in a direction selecting everything as you go along. This way would essentially require two additional cursors so that after selecting the whole word in the fashion described above it'd look something like this:
|Missis|sippi|
Three cursors: The locked one, the one that moved left and the one that moved right...
If anyone knows whether this can/has been achieved in any IDE please let me know :)
Thanks in advance