Ctl + left/right Shortcut selection of "word" issues

Question

Greetings!
I am relatively new to dreamweaver, but am an avid user of shortcuts to make coding as fast as possible.  A major caveat of this, is to minimize key-strokes.  One of Dreamweaver's behaviors regarding shortcuts behaves rather poorly.
Cutting and pasting a single html element or group, or a whole line without the whitespace indentation, requires a few too many key-strokes for my liking.
Doubleclicking the mouse, and  ctl + left or right, are supposed to "select word left/right," but I am at a loss for how Dreamweaver is defining a "word" within the code.  Especially HTML or similar code. It seems dreamweaver only defines a "word" as being an unbroken group of alphanumeric characters... but that is not very helpful for a programmer.
More specifically, consider the following HTML example:
           <li><strong>Charaters</strong></li>
place your cursor at the end, Shift + Home selects the whole line.
then ctl + shift + right selects, "li><s..."     omiting the leading "<"
doubleclick an element, and it only selects the letters within the element.
Granted, a simple fix for the given example would be to create a custom shortcut:
     Shift + Home;     Ctl + Shift + Right;     Shift + Left;
However, that does not address the many other "keystroke minimization" issues this little "word definition" creates.
Is there any way to modify this behavior to treat a simple html elements as a whole word?
Or even expand it to treat the tag definition (including the "<") as a word, and then each attribute as a word?
Thank you for your help in advance,
Tony

Answer 1

I absolutely agree with you in that most Dreamweaver users are working in code view.  Moreover, within Dreamwaver there are alot of very handy tools for coders.  Rather, what I am saying is the core of Dreamweaver was built to be a GUI first, but has since been adapted to be more coder friendly.  In this case specifically, it's definition of a "word," is a perfect example.
Within Dreamweaver a word (as far as I can tell) is defined as a group of alphanumeric-only characters, separated by spaces.  When it encounters any other characters, it treats each as a word. The result is the cursor stoping at every special character, and sometimes in very weird and inconvienient places. Every other development software I have come across, (Homesite, Visual Studio, and VIM to name a few) is at least a bit more context sensitive, stopping between "><" in html tags, and only at the ends of white space or certain special characters.  That behavior is MUCH more friendly to shortcut use.  Actions which would only take 3 or 4 keystorkes in any of these, could take as many as 8 to 10 in Dreamweaver, because of this behavior alone. Doesn't matter much if you have time to use a mouse, but really hobbles speedy development.  This behavior is perfectly designed to work with english and text, but perfectly horrible for working with code.
Keyboard and mouse combination works fine for html, and slower troublshooting or coding, but is way to slow when compared to good shortcut use.  Especially in a production or development environment with deadlines.  Not that I'm going to stop using Dreamweaver, but I would really like to find a way to make it work with me, instead of against me.
Thank you for your time and attention trying to help me understand the issue.