In Xcode if I have:
foo}
and I insert my cursor just before the closing curly bracket and hit return, I get:
foo
}
What I would both expect (and desire) is to get:
foo
}
It feels like I've tried every single preference setting in the Text Editing pane to change this behavior with no success.
I just learned you can press:
Option + Return
This will prevent insertion of the new line but also prevents indentation entirely.
In Visual Studio
while i am typing a string inside braces
what is the hotkey to go to ending bracket ] without pressing end
item["i am typing here..."] //i want an hotkey to jump here
if it's not possible
how can i jump out of current box which i am typing in?
namespace{
class{
method(){
lambda->({(jump out of this box)});
}
}
}
according to this https://www.dofactory.com/reference/visual-studio-shortcuts you should use end button to go to ending bracket and you can see all of hotkeys in this link.
You are looking for Ctrl-]. From the documentation:
Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the document. If the cursor is on an opening brace, this will move to the corresponding closing
brace and vice versa
At the bottom line - it will bring you to the end of your current braces-scope (or to the beginning of it if you are on the closing brace )
I did this trick after starting to type inside quotes ("")
press tab then press ]
It's much better than pressing end
Sometimes this won't work and will print /t character
I don't know how to deal with that
Still, there should be a better answer to this!
Geany is the closest thing I can find to the perfect web development IDE. However, I can't find a way to automatically close curly brackets ({).
For example, typing:
function test()
{
..and pressing RETURN should cause this to happen:
function test()
{
// cursor ends up here (indented by 1 tab)
}
Is there anything that can make Geany do that?
This is a native feature of Geany,
Go to Preferences, then Completions, down there you can choose which one you want to auto close.
Check here for screenshots
You make something else:
If you want, open https://plugins.geany.org/autoclose.html and see "autoclose" plugin. You can install with :
sudo apt-get install geany-plugins-autoclose
and It is all
That isn't full answer to your question, but may be helpful.
I have Geany not in english, I make translations of menu's fields on my own.
Geany has a feature: when you type special text and press Tab, the text is going to be replaced with another text.
It works by default for if, else, for, while, do, switch and try.
Configuration of this feature is in [Tools]/[Config files]/[snippets.conf].
After doing some changes, save file and click [Tools]/[Reload configuration].
I added two lines to section C++:
class=class %cursor%%block%;\n
struct=struct %cursor%%block%;\n
With block=\s{\n\t%cursor%\n}
It doesn't let you press { Enter or { Tab to get
{
//cursor
}
because {=anything is ignored, I don't know why.
What you can do? You can have some another text, replaced using {\n\t%cursor%\n}, or define keybinding inserting it.
Geany can have user defined snippets. It is possible to open snippet configuration file from menu.
Tools ->
Configuration files ->
snippets.conf
Go to the language block where you want to add that feature.
For example:
[C]
if=if (%cursor%)%block_cursor%
else=else%block_cursor%
for=for (i = 0; i < %cursor%; i++)%block_cursor%
while=while (%cursor%)%block_cursor%
do=do\n{\n\t%cursor%\n} while (%cursor%)\n%cursor%
switch=switch (%cursor%)%brace_open%case %cursor%:\n\t\t%cursor%\n\t\tbreak;\n\tdefault:\n\t\t%cursor%\n%brace_close%%cursor%
At first it can be thought that the problem can be fixed just with adding this line
{=%\n{\n\t%cursor%\n}%
But Geany does not accept that when snippet is one non alphabetic character.
It will work for any other alphabetic character like this
b=%\n{\n\t%cursor%\n}% or bl=%\n{\n\t%cursor%\n}%
However I dont think it is what you want. The real solution you can find from geanys menu.
Edit
->Preferences
->Editor
->Completions
Tick the Auto-close quotes and brackets then click on apply and save
The Auto-close doesn't work if we place brackets inside another pair of brackets. For example, the inner bracket doesn't auto-close.{{|}
However, we can use the following snippet to create a block.
{={\n\t%cursor%\n}
But in order to use this snippet, we first have to include '{' char in our wordchars set by changing the below line in snippets.conf file.
wordchars=_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789{
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio 2010 (I'm using ReSharper 6.1 also) that will allow me to surround a selected block of text with curly braces? I tried "Surround With..." (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S), but I didn't see an option in the list to choose curly braces as the surrounding element. The common use case for this is that I'll have an if-statement like the following:
if (conditional)
statement1;
// the rest of the program
I'll realize that there are some additional tasks that need to be performed inside the if-statement and I add them:
if (conditional)
statement1;
statement2;
statement3;
// the rest of the program
Then, I remember that I need to wrap all the statements in curly braces and the code should really look like this:
if (conditional)
{
statement1;
statement2;
statement3;
}
// the rest of the program
What I'd like to do is just select the three statements and then hit a shortcut key to wrap them in curly braces. What I actually end up doing is moving the cursor to the beginning of the line after the conditional, then typing a { character, then deleting the } character that ReSharper (unhelpfully) automatically inserts immediately after the {, then moving the cursor down to end of the last statement of the block and entering } to complete the block.
Select rows of code.
Press Ctrl E-U (Surround with template) (or Ctrl Alt J for Intelli J).
Select option 7: { }.
Works for me.
Edit: This question had been tagged "Tolstoy" in appreciation of the quality and length of my writing:) Just reading the first and the last paragraph should be enough:) If you tend to select and move code with the mouse, the stuff in middle could be interesting to you.
This question is about how you use text editors in general. I’m looking for the best way to delete a plurality of lines of code (no intent to patent it:) This extends to transposing lines, i.e. deleting and adding them somewhere else. Most importantly, I don’t want to be creating any blank lines that I have to delete separately. Sort of like Visual Studio's SHIFT+DELETE feature, but working for multiple lines at once.
Say you want to delete line 3 from following code (tabs and newlines visualized as well). The naïve way would be to select the text between angle brackets:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;\n
\t <i *= 2;>\n
\t i += 3;\n
}\n
Then hit backspace. This creates a blank line. Hit backspace twice more to delete \t and \n.
You end up with:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;\n
\t i += 3;\n
}\n
When you try to select a whole line, Visual Studio doesn't let you select the trailing newline character. For example, placing the cursor on a line and hitting SHIFT+END will not select the newline at the end. Neither will you select the newline if you use your mouse, i.e. clicking in the middle of a line and dragging the cursor all the way to the right. You only select the trailing newline characters if you make a selection that spans at least two lines. Most editors I use do it this way; Microsoft WordPad and Word are counter-examples (and I frequently get newlines wrong when deleting text there; at least Word has a way to display end-of-line and end-of-paragraph characters explicitly).
When using Visual Studio and other editors in general, here’s the solution that currently works best for me:
Using the mouse, I select the characters that I put between angle brackets:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;<\n
\t i *= 2;>\n
\t i += 3;\n
}\n
Hitting backspace now, you delete the line in one go without having to delete any other characters. This works for several contiguous lines at once. Additionally, it can be used for transposing lines. You could drag the selection between the angle brackets to the point marked with a caret:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;<\n
\t i *= 2;>\n
\t i += 3;^\n
}\n
This leaves you with:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;\n
\t i += 3;<\n
\t i *= 2;>\n
}\n
where lines 3 and 4 have switched place.
There are variations on this theme. When you want to delete line 3, you could also select the following characters:
if (true) {\n
\t int i = 1;\n
<\t i *= 2;\n
>\t i += 3;\n
}\n
In fact, this is what Visual Studio does if you tell it to select a complete line. You do this by clicking in the margin between your code and the column where the red circles go which indicate breakpoints. The mouse pointer is mirrored in that area to distinguish it a little better, but I think it's too narrow and physically too far removed from the code I want to select.
Maybe this method is useful to other people as well, even if it only serves to make them aware of how newlines are handled when selecting/deleting text:) It works nicely for most non-specialized text editors. However, given the vast amount of features and plugins for Visual Studio (which I use most), I'm sure there is better way to use it to delete and move lines of code. Getting the indentation right automatically when moving code between different blocks would be nice (i.e. without hitting "Format Document/Selection"). I'm looking forward to suggestions; no rants on micro-optimization, please:)
Summary of Answers
With respect to Visual Studio: Navigating well with the cursor keys.
The solution that would best suit my style of going over and editing code is the Eclipse way:
You can select several consecutive lines of code, where the first and the last selected line may be selected only partially. Pressing ALT+{up,down} moves the complete lines (not just the selection) up and down, fixing indentation as you go. Hitting CTRL+D deletes the lines completely (not just the selection) without leaving any unwanted blank lines. I would love to see this in Visual Studio!
In Emacs:
kill-line C-k
transpose-lines C-x C-t
C-a C-k C-k -- kill whole line including newline (or kill-whole-line by C-S-backspace).
C-u <number> C-k -- kill <number> of lines (including newlines).
C-y -- yank back the most recently killed text (aka paste)
In VIM:
Delete the whole line including the newline: dd
Transpose lines: dd p
You can always prefix any command with a number to repeat it, so to delete 10 lines do:
10 dd
You can also specify a range of lines to delete. For instance, to delete lines 10-15:
:10,15d
Or you can move the lines, for instance move lines 10-15 below line 20:
:10,15m20
Or you can copy the lines:
:10,15t20
What I do is, starting with the cursor at the start of the line (in some editors you have to press home twice to do this), hold shift and press down until all lines that I want to delete are selected. Then I press delete.
In Eclipse you can ALT-↓ or ALT-↑ to move a line. I find this incredibly useful, as well as ALT-SHIFT-{↓, ↑} to copy a line. In addition, it doesn't wreck your clipboard. It even corrects indentation as the line is moving!
Adding to the existing vim answer, you can use d along with any cursor movement command to delete from the cursor's current position to the new position. For example, to delete...
...to end-of-paragraph (usually meaning "to the next blank line"): d}
...the line containing the cursor and the next 5 lines: d5j
...a set of parentheses, braces, etc. and its contents: d% (with the cursor on the opening or closing paren/brace/etc.)
...to the third appearance of the word "foo": d3/foo
It's quite flexible.
Learn to use your cursor keys.
For moving lines I do the following:
Use ↑/↓to move to the line you want to copy.
Hit Home if not there already, and again if it places the cursor after whitespace.
Then press Shift+↓ to select the line (or lines) you want to move
Ctrl+X to cut the line.
Move Up/Down to the line you want to insert
Ctrl+V
This should work in pretty much any text editor on Windows.
When deleting lines I still tend to use Ctrl+X (although I guess I also use backspace) as the above is so ingrained in how I edit, and it's also more forgiving.
(Although I find them disorienting on the occasions I use Macs, I think Apple might have been on to something with the way they've set up the Home/End, skip word shortcuts on Macs)
Ctrl+Shift+L removes line without copying it to the buffer.
in Eclipse i use CTRL+ D to delete a single line (or a couple)
for many lines i'll select them with the mouse or with SHIFT + ARROW then press the DEL key.
In addition to the above, use Resharper for Visual Studio to do what you want. Best VS plugin you will find ever. It provides a bunch of different commands that help with moving/deleting/copying code here there and everywhere. Not to mention refactor/generate/etc code.
Ctrl-Shift-Alt ↑or ↓ will move a method up or down, line up or down, etc.
Shift-Del - deletes the current line, but puts it in the clipboard (unless you modify your settings to not do this - I'm trying to recall if this is a VS standard shortcut, not just Resharper - been too long).
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X without selecting copies/cuts the current line.
And on and on...
See http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/docs/ReSharper40DefaultKeymap2.pdf for a full list.
Using the Brief keyboard mapping this is done using the Alt+L to mark the line and the - key on the numeric keypad (or Alt+D) to cut the line to clipboard. The cut will remove the line entirely, including the newline character.
Hitting the Ins key on the numeric keypad would put the line back into the document including the newline character.
IMHO Brief is a really well designed keyboard mapping.
PS: I think MSVC has an option to emulate the Brief keyboard mapping.
In Emacs, in addition to C-k (and C-k with a numeric prefix arg, to kill N lines), you can just use the mouse:
To kill one line: triple-click it, then right-click twice
To kill multiple lines: triple-click the first line, then right-click on the last line ("first" line can be after the "last" line -- "first" here means first one you click)