Command to select to beginning or end of code block/paragraph in VSCode

Question

So I found this issue on GitHub which discusses cursor navigation by code block/paragraph. Is there a related functionality to simultaneously select from the current cursor position to the end or beginning of the next block as well?

Answer 1

Selecting can be accomplished by adding "select": true, to the "args" list in the keybindings described in the linked GitHub issue. So the final result would look like this (adding shift to the keybinding to differentiate it from the paragraph navigation command):

{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+down",
    "command": "cursorMove",
    "when": "editorTextFocus", 
    "args": {
        "to": "nextBlankLine",
        "by": "wrappedLine",
        "select": true,
    }
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+up",
    "command": "cursorMove",
    "when": "editorTextFocus", 
    "args": {
        "to": "prevBlankLine",
        "by": "wrappedLine",
        "select": true,
    }
}