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How do I make Eclipse's HTML text editor highlight one word on Shif+Alt+Left (or Right)?

How do I make Eclipse's HTML text editor highlight one word on Shif+Alt+Left (or Right)?

On every other editor in the universe, that key sequence would highlight the next word. But in the Eclipse HTML editor it highlights the entire page. This is driving me insane, why does this one text editor out of all of the Eclipse packages break this convention? I'm doing some work in the middle of a huge file and I'm trying to highlight one word, and then all of a sudden I've highlighted the whole file and the focus has jumped to the top of the file and I can't even find my place again.

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bert [Entry]

"Go to preferences, General, Keys : Select Previous Element (list item name)

The preference for shift-alt-left should be under ""Select Previous Element"", but may be different for the precise file type you are editing, or have been changed by a plug-in you installed, perhaps?

Doing a search for ""page"" I certainly don't see that; I have the default settings."