Is there a way to select a tab by ordinal number - like in browsers? In particular something like Control-1/Control-2 or Alt-1/Alt-2 to select one of the two tabs presently displayed.
Note that even the command-{ and command-} are not working for me.
Therefore even the less preferable approach of cycling through the tabs - as shown in a couple of questions such as this one https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/85461/programmer-new-to-apple-how-to-efficiently-switch-between-files-in-xcode - do not work. So presently there is no way to switch tabs except by physically clicking on them.
A quite acceptable alternative would be a keyboard driven quick-list like Command-E in JetBrains IDE's (intellij, pycharm, AppCode, etc)
This is not an answer to your real question, which is a great idea — the answer is no, there isn't. (File an enhancement with Apple...!)
However: The keyboard shortcut for toggling to the next tab is Control-Tab, which I find quite easy to remember.
Also note that all keyboard shortcuts are user-configurable.
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I was a macbook user in my previous job. I used Atom IDE as a text editor there because I liked how it handled projects in the LHS tree view, and because I liked the tabs. In particular, I liked that in MacOSX, tabs could be grouped, so that clicking one group got one set of tabs, while hiding the other set of tabs. This allowed me to have more tabs open (without tab name being too small to read), while at the same time being more organized.
My question is: is there a way to get the "tab group" feature when using Atom IDE in Windows 10? My first guess is no, since the tab group was probably an OS feature, but I could be wrong.
NOTE: This is not in reference to a "pane", as that feature doesn't hide tabs, as I was hoping for in tab groups.
One Answer: I found this ATOM ide package that makes the tab row into multiple rows. However, instead of hiding one row and showing the other row, it shows both rows at the same time, stacked. It works for now, but a full-fledged plugin for this would be nice.
https://atom.io/packages/multirow-tabs
I wonder, why doesn't xCode "act" as a normal editor? For example, when I press Ctrl+X, I'd like the current line to be copied-cut. When I press Shift+Tab I'd like the current selection to be shifted to the left, etc. That's the stuff most editors do by default.
How to make it do that?
Take a look at Preferences -> Key Bindings. Here you get a list of actions and their keyboard shortcuts - and you can change those keyboard shortcuts!
It's quite amazing how many actions there are, including a great number of familiar Emacs actions such as mark and yank. Many of them have no corresponding menu item; many of them have no keyboard shortcut by default. Some of them may be the things you are looking for, and all you need to do is change the shortcut if you don't like it. It is very possible that you'll find at least some bindings that you can use to make Xcode behave in a more familiar way.
Is it possible to change the width of the text editor in VS2012 - I've got a fairly wide screen and use fairly small text so I end up with a lot wasted real-estate in the middle of my screen.
I don't want to turn off word wrap - I just want the wrap to start further right on the line. If that makes sense!?
You can set this with HTML in Visual Studio 2012 but there is no global setting and it's missing in quite a few languages.
You can just put another "dummy" window next to the one you are writing in, so the actual editor window will be smaller. You can put it on the left if you want to pan the text to the right, and to the right if you want to shorten the lines.
I actually found the answer elsewhere; VS doesn't appear to provide this functionality but Resharper does. Resharper -> Options -> Code Editing -> C# -> Formatting Style -> Line Breaks and Wrapping -> Right margin (columns)
I put mine to 200 which fixed the issue
I know that this is not what you are looking for, but I believe it solves the same problem. I too have a fairly large screen and try to make use of it as optimally as possible.
I hate tabbing between code or design tabs and try to avoid that as much as possible.
VS has a feature that permits the user to create Horizontal or Vertical Tab groups and ever since I have started using it, I have found it very helpful. These options are present in the context menu by right clicking the tab or in the VS Window Menu (Menus are seen only if the tab groups feature is not active).
I have created a screenshot with Vertical Tab Groups created as shown below. In this example, I have a overview of both the designer and the code view at the same time.
We can use tab groups whenever there is a dependency such as comparing code, redesigning a module, etc. I know it takes a little time to get used to this feature but try it out and see :)
I am not sure what is the best way to word my question correctly in single line. But basically I have seen quite a few video tutorials now where the coder types really fast using some sort of shortcut to fill in the automatic text(prolly intellisense stuff) It looks very similar to Linux command line tab where you only type half of your text and when you hit tab it either fills in the gap or show you the remaining options.
Hope that makes sense.
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Pressing Ctrl+Space completes the current variable/class you are typing.
Typing things like ctor and then pressing the Tab key twice tells Visual Studio to insert a constructor for you. (Also works with for for a for loop, cw for a Console.WriteLine();, etc.)
For a full list, please refer to the official reference from MSDN.
I believe its Ctrl-Space, which is pretty common among most IDE's
I think the title is essentially self-explanatory except for a necessary clarification and caveat:
Clarification
I'm not entirely sure if 'narrowing' is the universal term for the feature I'm referring to. What I mean is something like Emacs' 'narrow buffer', ie. the ability to select a region and quickly narrow the editor window to show only that region, and then after some edits to be able to quickly zoom out to see/edit the full file again. It's a feature I like, and find far more useful than code folding.
Caveat
Of course the answer is 'yes -- (X)Emacs' (and possibly vim?). But I'm looking for something other than vim or Emacs; almost certainly a more GUIsh one (think Textmate, TextWrangler etc).
My researches seem to suggest that the straightest answer is just 'no'. I haven't been able to find an editor that runs on OS X that supports narrowing, other than emacs.
I have however figured out a workaround that might be of interest for some scenarios, which is to use Hog Bay Software's QuickCursor in conjunction with one or more editors.
For example, I've tried setting up QuickCursor to fire up TextMate. So now when working in XCode, I can select the text I want to narrow to, hit the global hotkey I have set up, and the selected text pops up in a TextMate window. That can be edited, then a save and dismiss window pops the edited text back in XCode.
This also works if you're just working in TextMate (or, I imagine, one of the other editors that QuickCursor can control); ie. you can select select test in the editor, trigger QuickCursor to open the selected text in a new window, and later pop that text back to the original window.
I'm guessing this is not what you want, but you didn't specifically say so: Aquamacs? It's an emacsen with good integration with OS X (cut, paste, menus, toolbars, etc).