To select the two words: Emile Schwarz, on macOS, I use (and in this forum too):
click at the left (or right) of one of the two words,
shift-option-arrow two times.
With Xojo 2018r1, I have to do that trice !
In 2013, I wrote I am feeling insecure using the Xojo Code Editor. Five years later (and I use it everyday, count them), this is still the case: I am always searching where the h**l is the text cursor
Other non macOS selection are not koecher, but if no one talk about then since 2013