expand-region-el software package provides Increase selected region in Emacs by semantic units, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install expand-region-el
expand-region-el is installed in your system.
Make ensure the expand-region-el package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep expand-region-el *
You will get with expand-region-el package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Editors |
| Package | expand-region-el |
| Version | 0.10.0-3 |
| Description | Increase selected region in Emacs by semantic units |
| Sub Section | Editors |