How to bring the cursor to the start of the word which the cursor is currently pointed to?

Question

Usually after I've typed a word like say Wikipedia:

Typing.. Tying.. Wikipedia[cursor here]

I want to "select" that word, so basically I press Shift + ← x 9

Now slowly this gets annoying, so I was wondering

How do we "select" the last typed word without using a mouse? (that does better than the above solution)

In what program? Different programs use different keyboard shortcuts.
@CarlF in Windows, which will work on almost all programs. Something like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, if you know what I mean..

ed. · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-16 10:43:23Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

CTRL-SHIFT-LEFT will do the trick.

answered Sep 16 '11 at 10:43

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	That's amazing ed ! – Pacerier Sep 16 '11 at 15:48
	Ctrl-Shift-Left will work if the cursor is at the end of a word, which is not quite what the OP asked (although it may be what he wanted). – CarlF Sep 16 '11 at 15:53

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