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This can be done with Ctrl-UpArrow. Pressing that repeatedly selects more and surrounding the current location. Pressing Ctrl-DownArrow selects less again.

Those and some other selection operations are in the Edit > Select menu. You'ld want to set key bindings for those that you use. The command names are select-* or next-* and previous-* for the next/previous selection operations. You should be able to browse from the completer shown for command names from the User Interface > Keyboard > Custom Key Bindings preference.

Sorry, indeed the command naming here isn't great and the docs at https://wingware.com/doc/commands/edit contain too much to be easy to use. We'll try to improve that aspect of it, probably by listing the command names in https://wingware.com/doc/edit/selecting and explaining how to set bindings for them.

This can be done with Ctrl-UpArrow. Pressing that repeatedly selects more and surrounding the current location. Pressing Ctrl-DownArrow selects less again.

Those and some other selection operations are in the Edit > Select menu. You'ld want to set key bindings for those that you use. The command names are select-* or next-* and previous-* for the next/previous selection operations. You should be able to browse from the completer shown for command names from the User Interface > Keyboard > Custom Key Bindings preference.

Sorry, indeed the command naming here isn't great and the docs at https://wingware.com/doc/commands/edit contain too much to be easy to use. We'll try to improve that aspect of it, probably by listing the command names in https://wingware.com/doc/edit/selecting and explaining how to set bindings for them.