I want to change the key binding set in Xcode 11 some are editable bur some are greyed which I cannot edit, how to unlock it.
Because they are similar to other editable shortcuts thus are treated as something like dependent variables.
In the File Menu section for example, the Close Tab (CMD+W) shortcut is editable. Meanwhile, the similar shortcuts (Close Other Tabs (Option+CMD+W), Close Window (Shift+CMD+W), Close Other Windows (Control+Option+CMD+W), Close All Windows (Option+Shift+CMD+W)) are not editable (greyed).
But when I change Close Tab from (CMD+W) to (CMD+M), the W in the keys of all those similar shortcuts will be changed accordingly to M.
You can verify this on your computer.
To be clear, you cannot edit key bindings that are grayed out. They are generated based on the preceding setting. For example, if the preceding settings is ⌘2 then the grayed out setting below may add ⌥ to become ⌘⌥2.
If you're astonished at how poor this design is, then rest assured that your understanding is correct.
As a workaround, I use BetterTouchTool to remap my shortcuts. For example to "close other tabs" I remap ⌘⇧W (my preferred shortcut) to ⌥⌘W (Xcode's default) and have it only apply to the Xcode app.
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What I really like with a text editor (or IDE) is to be able to easily remap its keyboard shortcuts to what I want, and Xcode seems to do a bad job with this.
I want to be able to switch file tabs by using option + command + arrow (left and right arrows). However, when I try to change keyboard shortcuts for the Show Previous Tab and Show Next Tab actions, the option key is not applied.
In the screenshot, you can see—through KeyCastr—how I pressed the option + command + right arrow keys and end up with command + right arrow in Xcode, the option key is missing.
Is there any solution? Note that the option key can be used on some actions, for example I can use it with the About Xcode action, but this is obviously not what I want.
I'm using Xcode 13.4.1.
Okay so I've found a solution. Not a perfect one but it works!
There is no way to use the option key in some actions because they are constrained by the Navigation in Xcode preferences.
Instead you can change the system preferences to add a new shortcut to the Xcode app.
However, when you will use those keyboard shortcuts in Xcode, you will see a weird behavior where the tab you are switching to, gets opened in a new editor.
This is due to the default navigation preferences of Xcode, change the "Optional Navigation" preference from "Uses Next Editor" to "Uses Tab".
I would like to have ctrl-tab behavior in Xcode (4.6, if that's relevant)-- is that available?
I do NOT mean behavior described as in the answer to this question:
Xcode - cycle through open windows
That is, cmd-` is not what I want to do, because I don't want to use multiple windows.
I mean, I want the editor to behave like Visual Studio or Netbeans, and be able to cycle through the files that I've opened in the same real estate. I don't like having a cloud of windows to navigate through. Is this possible, or is this idiom just not something in Xcode at all?
You can use control-2 to bring up the history menu, then up and down to select the file you want. Then control-3 to move forward.
Try ctrl + cmd + left Arrow/right Arrow
One approach is to use more tabs. In the General tab of Xcode's Preferences (as of Xcode 4.6.3), set “Double Click Navigation” to “Use Separate Tab”:
Then, when you open files by double-clicking them, they will open in new tabs. You can navigate between tabs by typing ⌘ { and ⌘ } (command-shift-left bracket and command-shift-right bracket). You can rebind the “Select Next Tab” and “Select Previous Tab” commands in the Key Bindings preferences if you want to use other keys.
I think what you want is the following:
Sorry for using Xcode 5 here, but I think that might be more future-proof and it's the same in Xcode 4.X.
As far as I know there is no shortcut for that behavior but - as in any web view - you can swipe with your finger (1 finger on the Magic Mouse, 2 finger on the Trackpad).
I've been diligently memorizing VS 2010 shortcuts based on the cheatsheats on Scott Guthries blog.
The shortcuts in the cheatsheet for WIndows dont match my setup e.g. Ctrl W,C is the cheatsheet shortcut to open the class viewer but mine is Ctrl + SHift, C. Maybe this is because my 08 settings got picked up at some point.
I've changed the shortcuts for viewing windows to match the cheat sheet (Ctrl + W,...) however most of the time Ctrl+W,... isn't working for me, whereas the previously defined shortcuts still work. If I go into the keyboard mappings I can see the shortcuts under global are Ctrl+W.
Anyone got any ideas?
Try going to Tools -> Options -> General -> Keyboard, focus the textbox labelled "Press shortcut keys" and pressing Ctrl+W. The dropdown list beneath it will show all corresponding actions. Action mappings are contextual -- they depend on what has the focus. Furthermore, 'Global' actions only apply if a more localised mapping does not exist. Check for anything applied to 'Text Editor'. If it exists and you don't want it, remove it by digging the action out in the 'Show commands containing' textbox above and clicking 'Remove'.
Also, do you have ReSharper installed? I love R#, but it uses Ctrl+W so the series of shortcuts you're referring to aren't available without being remapped or changing the R# keystroke (which I wouldn't personally, as I use it all the time.)
Ok, maybe they're system shortcuts. I've googled (just a bit) and couldn't find an answer. Maybe there isn't any :) Still..
I love keyboard and I use quite a few in TextMate but just realise I still use the mouse for 2 of the most common actions:
How do I press search and replace after the S/R dialog box is up? - if you press enter it just takes you to the next occurrence of the search string
when I close a file that I don't want to save, how can I choose don't save without touching the mouse?
To select Don't Save from the keyboard, you can use the keyboard shortcut ⌘+D. (This works in most OS X apps, not just TextMate.)
The search and replace (actually it's called "Replace & Find") shortcut is alt-cmd-f and works both inside the Find dialog and without it. With using other shortcuts like cmd-f, shift-cmd-f, cmd-G you can perform most of the search/replace actions without even opening the dialog. For example, if you want to perform the substitution, you press alt-cmd-f, then another is highlighted and if you want to skip it, it's cmd-G, which finds yet another, and so on.
As for the second question, I think it's a general Mac OS X issue -- the message boxes buttons don't have keyboard shortcuts in other apps, too. When I first switched from Windows, this annoyed me but I got used to it by now.
I recently built a web site to store lists of shortcut keys and there is a great list of TextMate Shortcut Keys for Mac on there.
If you know any more you can add them yourself too!
Here's the link http://shortcutkeys.org/software-shortcuts/mac/textmate
If you want to choose the answer for any dialog with the keyboard, go to "System Preferences" > "Keyboard" > "Keyboard Shortcuts". On the bottom of that page there are two radio buttons. Activate "All controls". Now you can switch options of a dialog box with the tab key in every proper OS X application. Note that this is a secondary option, thus you can hit the enter key for the default behaviour or space to trigger your secondary option. Most often it's set to the opposite of the default behaviour, i.e. "Don't save" in a file save dialog and "no" or "cancel" in many many other applications.
I think thats a great feature. Due to the secondary option I always hit either enter or space, depending which option I wanted.
I just got into the office, and booted up my computer to work on my current project.
I hopped into a class file, and selected (through mouse highlighting) a group of events to delete.
What happened though was it only erased one character. Wondering what happened, I clicked at the beginning of the selection and re-highlighted the text to delete it again.
So i just clicked randomly in the middle of the file, and it highlighted from the beginning of the first selection all the way to where I clicked in the middle.
I have rebooted both VS, the computer and insured that sticky keys and all other "accessibility" software was turned off.
UPDATE
When I click shift and try to manually highlight with my arrow keys, the cursor doesn't even move.
UPDATE
When I click escape from the selection it goes to the search drop down:
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The same thing happened to me, I held down the shift key for a few seconds then while still holding it down I clicked anywhere in the open page in Visual Studio, and voilá, my mouse click was back to normal.
I imagine I had unwittingly activated some kind of keyboard shortcut but not sure which
I had this same problem too. I believe I found the solution: check your keyboard options.
Go under tools -> options, under the Environment subtree, click 'Keyboard'. Then, you will see a dropdown with the label "Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme". If you select "Brief" from this, you get the keyboard behavior as described. I'm not exactly sure what "Brief" refers to, but it certainly isn't familiar to me.
Change the keyboard layout back to (default) or another one to get the behavior you expect.
Reinstalled VS and now everything is better.