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the Goal of MetaWord is providing different kinds of words based cursorMove/Select/Delete commands.

MetaWord is part of MetaGo extension

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MetaWord

|word type|description|examples|

|SpaceWord(BigWord)| characters separated by 'space'('Space' or 'Tab')|"abc $1024 (apple,pineapple...)" are three SpaceWords |Word|a group of alphanumeric character with underscore:(A-Za-z0-9_) or a group of other symbol characters:~!@#$%^&*()-+:;"',./?[]{} note: include 'space'|"abc $1024 (apple,pineapple...)" are words seperated by '/' as "abc/ $/1024/ (/apple/,/pineapple/...)" |WordPart(SmallWord)| a part in a group of CamelCase (A-Za-z0-9) characters, a part of '_' connected (A-Za-z0-9) characters, or a group of other symbol characters| a group of spaces; WordPart: Word/Part; word-part: word/-part/

• shift+backspace: delete all from the cursor to the line start. • shift+del: delete all from the cursor to the line end.

Word commands to moveCursor/select/delete by word

we use the default vscode 'Word' commands

note: default vscode cursorWordEndRight command would do this: \ console.log(err): '|console|.log|(err|)|' \ a+= 3 +5-3 + 7:'|a|+=| 3| +5|-3| +| 7|'(from left) or 'a|+= |3 |+|5|-|3 |+ |7|'(from right)\ (if there is only one symbol character before the next word, the cursor would not stop after the symbol)

default vscode cursorWordStartLeft command would do this: 'this|.|is|.|a|.|test' and ' text| a|+=| 3| +|5|-|3| +| 7|' (work as expected)

default deleteWordLeft command would do this: '|this.|is.|a.|test'(ctrl+left/right: left/right move cursor to word start/end. • ctrl+shift+left/right: left/right select from cursor to word start/end. • ctrl+backspace/delete: left/right delete from cursor to word start/end. Note: one Mac, the cursorWord* commands are not mapped, you may need to map them by your self.

WordPart commands to moveCursor/select/delete by wordPart

Examples: ABCdef__ghIJKL * when forward: * '|AB|Cdef|__gh|IJKL|' * '|AB|Cdef|__ghijkl|' * when backward: * '|AB|Cdef__|gh|IJKL|' (ctrl+alt+left/right: move cursor left/right to the wordPart start/end. • ctrl+alt+shift+left/right: left/right select from cursor to the wordPart start/end. • ctrl+alt+backspace: left delete to the wordPart start. • on windows ctrl+alt+shift+backspace: right delete to the wordPart end.(note: ctrl+alt+del on windows is a system shortcut, we could not use it) on Mac use ctrl+alt+delete

SpaceWord commands to moveCursor/select/delete word separated by space:

alt+; enter space mode, then: • move: arrow: left/right/up/down to move between spaces; note: up/down also work: they skip empty/whitespace-only lines and jump to the nearest non-empty line — up lands like left from the end of that line, down lands like right from its start. • select: shift + arrow keys to select; up/down same as move's logic. • delete: backspace to delete backward; delete to delete to another direction. • escape exits the mode. • any other key(except: arrow, delete/backspace) escape the mode, and the key also take effect in editor.

⚠️ If some keys don't work in space mode (e.g. up/down or backspace do nothing or behave normally while left/right/delete are fine), the key is being captured by something with higher priority than this extension — check these in order: 1. Your own keybindings (Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)): a user keybinding for that key (e.g. up→cursorUp with a when like textInputFocus) always overrides extension keybindings. Remove it, or scope it with && !metaGoSpaceMode. 2. Other extensions: another extension may bind the same key (e.g. Markdown All in One claims backspace in .md files). One extension can't reliably out-prioritize another, so disable/uninstall the conflicting one, or add a user keybinding for that key → the matching metaGo.spaceMode.* command gated by metaGoSpaceMode (user keybindings win over everything).

These space-mode bindings ship in this extension's package.json and work out of the box on a clean setup; the above only matters when a higher-priority binding shadows them.

Additional commands (manual keybinding)

These are the original non-modal SpaceWord commands (same logic as SpaceMode), but no default shortcuts are assigned (because some historical shortcuts are taken by OS / other features, e.g. Win11).

Commands

• metaGo.cursorSpaceWordLeft: move left by one space-word (cursor stops at the word boundary) • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordLeftSelect: select left by one space-word • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordLeftDelete: delete left by one space-word • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordRight: move right by one space-word • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordRightSelect: select right by one space-word • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordRightDelete: delete right by one space-word • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceLeft: move left by one space-word including surrounding spaces • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceLeftSelect: select left by one space-word including surrounding spaces • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceLeftDelete: delete left by one space-word including surrounding spaces • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceRight: move right by one space-word including surrounding spaces • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceRightSelect: select right by one space-word including surrounding spaces • metaGo.cursorSpaceWordSpaceRightDelete: delete right by one space-word including surrounding spaces

Example keybindings

Add your preferred keys in Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON):

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