PluginStatsexpand-region installs statistics
By Le Trieu · VS Code Marketplace · Other
expand selection , It works similar to ExpandRegion for Emacs and “Structural Selection” (Control-W) in the JetBrains IDE's (i.e. IntelliJ IDEA).
expand-region has 103,125 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #2319 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 31 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.90 / 5 from 31 ratings
About expand-region
vscode-expand-region
porting sublime-expand-region to visual code https://github.com/aronwoost/sublime-expand-region
Only support javascript and html now ,it will support python and latex in a future
JavaScript
1. Expand selection to word 2. Expand selection to quotes (content only) 3. Expand selection to quotes (with quotes) 4. Expand selection to square braces 5. Expand selection to expression 6. Expand selection to content of braces (all arguments in this case) 7. Expand selection to line 8. Expand selection to function body (w/o curly brace) 9. Expand selection to function body (with curly brace)
and so on...
HTML/PHP
1. Expand selection to word 2. Expand selection to quotes (content only) 3. Expand selection to quotes (with quotes) 4. Expand selection to complete self closing tag 5. Expand selection to parent node content 6. Expand selection to complete node 7. Expand selection to parent node content
and so on...
Using
• Set a keyboard shortcut. Open "Key Bindings" and add following code:
development
1. npm install 2. npm compile (compile typescript) 3. npm test:watch (run mocha for test)
Changelog
0.1.2
• support php
0.1.0
• support multi cursor • fix issue #10 #7
0.0.2
• add feature undo_expand_region
0.0.1
• first release
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=letrieu.expand-region. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.