In NetBeans IDE, is there a key combo to select up or down many lines?

Question

I always run into this situation: cursor is on line 5 and I want to select everything down to line 16. I have to resort to shift-arrow, arrow, arrow, or use the mouse.

NetBeans has "go to line" (Control-G) but you can't hold down shift while doing that, so no good for selecting. There's also "bookmarks," but same problem.

Anyone know of a cool trick that solves this problem?

I'm open to alternate tool suggestions for OS X.

Answer 1

... try NetBeans mailing list(s)

Answer 2

You can use Shift-PgDn or Shift-PgUp to select the next "page" of information.

The only thing that comes to mind is to create an editor macro.

Eg:

• Tools > Options > Editor > Macros
• Click "New" Enter a name:
• Enter a name for the macro: select-5-down

• For the macro code enter:

  selection-down selection-down selection-down selection-down selection-down

• Click "Set Shortcut" and assign a key binding. I used Alt-M.

Now each click of Alt-M extends the selection by 5 more lines.