I have Resharper installed and somehow CtrlW no longer "extends the selection". I tried assigning it to Global / Resharper.ExtendSelection in Tools -> Options -> Keyboard but it still only selects one word.
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I have found the resolutions. Go to ReSharper -> Options -> Visual Studio Integration -> Keybord Shortcuts --> ReSharper or IntelliJ IDEA.Next time when you press CtrlW, Visual studio will ask you about shortcuts. You will choice ReSharper shortcuts and that is it.
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Where can I find this in Resharper 2017.1.2? – radbyx May 17 '17 at 07:22
A solution i found was to reconfigure keys at the Text Editor
level (they are defined at Global
level and for some (annoying) reason Resharper overrides this.
So: (Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard)
, set Use new shortcut
to Text Editor
and redefine your shortcuts.
Tip: Look for your CtrlW favorites by writing view.
at Show commands containing
.
I needed View.ErrorList (CtrlW, CtrlE), View.Output (CtrlW, CtrlO) & View.SolutionExplorer (CtrlW, CtrlS)
HTH
p.s. I even disabled Resharper and it still won't work...

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I was actually trying to figure out the opposite. Ctrl-w stopped closing the current document... I overrode it at the global level, but resharper had stolen it in "Text Editor". This has been driving me nuts for *weeks*. Thank you! – superlime Apr 29 '12 at 07:02
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2ReSharper.Resharper_ExtendSelection and ReSharper.Resharper_ShrinkSelection are the command that worked for me – Vdex Sep 23 '14 at 13:25
A question and a suggestion:
- Does Resharper | Edit | Extend Selection work?
- Reapply VS integration via Resharper | Options | Visual Studio Integration | Apply Scheme

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2Possibly it's your source file doesn't support Extend Selection? I believe HTML and javascript don't support it. Is it available in a C#/VB file? – Kevin Feb 18 '11 at 15:12
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This worked for me. Extend Selection work is now CTRL + Alt + Left or Right Arrow keys in 2017.3.2 – Sanket Sonavane Feb 15 '18 at 05:53
For me the reason was a silly one:
My C# file was removed from the project accidentally, so resharper no longer regarded it as C# code and so there were no syntactical elements to extend the selection to. In other files it worked ok.

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In my case (Visual 2019)
- go to Tools\Options\Environment\Keyboard
- set Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme to Resharper (Visual Studio)

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I had the silliest reason. after the resharper installation I didn't apply my license or started the evaluation.

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