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title: Atom Selections
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### Atom Selections
Text selections in Atom support a number of actions, such as scoping deletion, indentation and search actions, and marking text for actions such as quoting and bracketing.
Selections mirror many of the movement commands. They're actually exactly the same keybindings as the movement commands, but with a Shift key added in.
* Shift+Up or Ctrl+Shift+P - Select up
* Shift+Down or Ctrl+Shift+N - Select down
* Shift+Left or Ctrl+Shift+B - Select previous character
* Shift+Right or Ctrl+Shift+F - Select next character
* Alt+Shift+LeftCtrl+Shift+Left or Alt+Shift+B - Select to beginning of word
* Alt+Shift+RightCtrl+Shift+Right or Alt+Shift+F - Select to end of word
* Cmd+Shift+RightShift+End or Ctrl+Shift+E - Select to end of line
* Cmd+Shift+LeftShift+Home or Ctrl+Shift+A - Select to first character of line
* Cmd+Shift+UpCtrl+Shift+Home - Select to top of file
* Cmd+Shift+DownCtrl+Shift+End - Select to bottom of file
In addition to the cursor movement selection commands, there are also a few commands that help with selecting specific areas of content.
* Cmd+ACtrl+A - Select the entire contents of the file
* Cmd+LCtrl+L - Select the entire line
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* Ctrl+Shift+W - Select the current word
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