Edit: Expand Selection

edit.expandSelection

Grow the selection to the next larger syntactic range (word, brackets, line, block, paragraph, document).

How to run it

Open the command palette (M-x in the Emacs keymap) and search for Edit: Expand Selection, then press Enter. It also has a default keybinding:

CUA M-S-right
Sublime Text M-S-right
VS Code M-S-right
IntelliJ IDEA C-w

See also