How to select whole word under the cursor in Visual Studio Code?

Question

What hotkey or command helps to select the whole word under the cursor in VSC? (Like CTRL or ALT + D in ST3)

Answer 1

Another simple way is to double click the mouse left button.

Answer 2

Note: the definition of a "word" is different when your document edited with VSCode is a markdown one.

That is why VSCode 1.52 (Nov. 2020) proposes:

Markdown inline smart select

Expand and shrink selection in Markdown documents using the following commands:

• Expand: kb(editor.action.smartSelect.expand)
• Shrink: kb(editor.action.smartSelect.shrink)

Selection applies to italics, bold, inline code blocks, and links.

Answer 3

To select the word under the cursor in VSCode: ctrl + d