Tip: Use Ctrl+W to select content in the IDE code editor.
Place your cursor some random piece of code, preferably deep in code that have nested blocks. Press Ctrl+W. Repeat, and repeat while watching the goodness progress.
This tidbit was shared by Jim Mack in a comment in the FB Delphi group.
Edit: The feature was introduced in Berlin 10.1
The feature struggles with Unicode characters in code and strings.
Those of you that use national characters in your strings or code (such as Cyrillic, Greek, or Chinese) that also misbehaves, should add a comment / example to the QP issue and vote on it.
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-19787
Lars Fosdal 
awesome oO
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Actually, not so many years. This shortcut was introduced only recently in Berlin.
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Uwe Raabe Really? I got the impression it was older – but that could be just me and my imagination, of course. Anyways – best new shortcut ever!
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Its one of the features of Castalia that were included since its acquisition.
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Very handy feature. Thanks for pointing it out.
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bmp.Canvas.FillRect(Rect(0,0,16,16));
I placed the cursor after the first “,” and it failed, just jumping to 16 and going back to the second 0.
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Victor Alberto Gil Works perfectly over here.
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Victor Alberto Gil
photos.google.com – New photo by Lars Fosdal
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yup, just saw it on fb the other day too, together with the hand-breaker ctrl+alt+shift+nose+ear+p
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Maybe something in my entire project affected it. I tried copying to another empty project and it worked perfectly.
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Out of curiosity – how it works? I don’t have the latest Delphi…
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Edwin Yip Have a look at the photo posted by Lars. Every Ctrl-W selects the next outer scope.
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CTRL-W usually means “close current document/tab”.
But maybe CTRL-V to view the source of a .dpr is even weirder 🙂
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Wouter van Nifterick never noticed it, it was always ctrl-f4 for me
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Attila Kovacs that’s the CUA one that has worked since stone age. Most modern GUI developers don’t know about those. For instance at https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/11865
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Victor Alberto Gil perhaps it is the dark theme, or do you have other plugins that grab the shortcut?
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BTW, it is very nice in if clauses too.
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Grrrr… I hate you now Lars Fosdal
I read this post yesterday and I just shrugged…
But today working all day in Seattle, I realized how often I would use it if it would be present…
I guess it’s especially useful when blocks are covering multiple lines when visually you lost track a little of which “begin” goes with which “end”, etc.
I wish GExperts would have something like that.
Thx for the info.
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Cool feature, but doesnot support uncode
https://plus.google.com/photos/…
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Евгений Савин Confirmed. It really loses it’s mind if there are Unicode characters in strings or variable names. That is not good.
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Евгений Савин
Created a QP issue demonstrating the problem with Norwegian æøå letters.
Those of you that use national characters in your strings or code (such as Cyrilliic, Greek, or Chinese) that also misbehaves, should add a comment / example to the QP issue and vote on it.
quality.embarcadero.com – Log in – Embarcadero Technologies
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Attn: Marco Cantù and David Millington
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Lars Fosdal the problem in the IDE is that it is not Unicode aware it does just Unicode encoding.
The IDE should re-use the compiler for anything syntax related.
Better: the R&D team should contribute to DelphiAST so finally the syntax gets documented and any tool (not just the IDE or compiler) can use it.
(Both the use of the compiler and contributing the syntax to the public have been suggested many times over the past two decades).
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Jeroen Wiert Pluimers That is an excellent idea!
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Çxx xugz
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