Intellij IDEA: How to select code (folding) block with keyboard?

Question

Example dummy code:

body {
    background: white;
}

How can I select this whole code block with one shortcut? Best if caret should be |body , or body {| , or just on the desired row.

There is "Move Caret to Code Block End/Start with Selection" command, but it actually doesn't select body and } . So in next step you can't indent whole block by Tab . And it doesn't really fit for this task.

Answer 1

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/help/selecting-text-in-the-editor.html#d746177e148 You can use extend selection This is very useful feature. In you case create macro:

• move to start block
• extend selection
• extend selection
• extend selection

And bind this macro to shortcut.