I am charged with maintaining a .h file. The formatting includes preserving white spaces (spaces, not tabs) between columns of colors.
When I copy and paste a previous line, all the spaces are collapsed, and I have to manually put them back in.
Is there a setting I can flip to keep the white spaces?
You'll probably want to turn off the auto formatting when pasting: Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++->Formatting->Automatically format when I paste
There's some other auto formatting settings there you might want to modify also, including customizing how auto formatting is performed.
If you want Tab to insert spaces instead of tabs change Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++->Tabs->Insert Spaces
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I have soft tabs enabled, but not only is the editor putting actual tabs in instead of spaces, if I type [space][space], it converts it to a tab. I've read that the editor tries to read existing files to guess your settings (I have Autodetect turned off if that matters), so I tried with a new file. Here is the relevant section of my settings file (which I edited through the GUI):
"ace": {
"#guessTabSize": false,
"#newLineMode": "unix",
"#tabSize": 2,
"#useSoftTabs": true
},
When I turn off soft tabs, it stops converting spaces into tabs, but either way, when I hit enter at the end of a line, autoindent uses a tab instead of spaces.
Cloud9 doesn't have any code that can convert two spaces into a tab.
When soft tabs is enabled it moves cursor as if two spaces is a tab, but that doesn't change characters in the file.
Enter at the end of line copies indentation from that line, and doesn't depend on tab settings.
Very close to reverse of this question. I prefer coding with 2-whitespace indentation, but need to have files indented with tabs to align with project convention. What I would like to do is preferably automatically convert 2 spaces upon entry to tab symbol in Notepad++ and have the editor configured to tab length of 2.
A possible manual way for doing this could be Edit->Blank Operations->Space to TAB but this converts all of my spaces to tabs, even those of length 1 - which are, for example, spaces between function arguments, not just leading spaces.
In a perfect case scenario I'm trying to achieve formatting style as described in this question, but with typing just spaces and the editor taking care of the rest.
I'm on Notepad++ 6.0, but willing to upgrade if this helps
Let me complete the answer of Ari Okkonen to add a workaround to the problem commented by Sergii Zaskaleta of mixed tabs and spaces at the beginning of the line.
Settings->Preferences->Tab Settings->Tab size: 2 (if not already)
Edit->Blank Operations->Space to TAB (Leading)
Select a block of lines of text with the problem of mixed spaces and tabs. Press [Tab] and [Shift]+[Tab] to add and remove a tab from each line. In the process, the leading spaces had been converted to tabs.
A manual way that seems to work: After having edited the file before saving you may try (Works in Notepad++ v6.8.3):
Settings->Preferences->Tab Settings->Tab size: 2 (if not already)
Edit->Blank Operations->Space to TAB (Leading)
How to do same behaving in Sublime Text as in Visual Studio, when using column selection
for example if there is a line break in a text, the cursor in Sublime go to beginning of a line
And this is behavior in Visual Studio desired behavior
Thanks
While you may want this functionality for other reasons, it seems like you are using it to adjust the indentation of code blocks. Fortunately, there is a much easier way of doing this. Select the text for which you want to change the indentation, then press Ctrl] to increase the indentation (move block right), or Ctrl[ to decrease indentation (move block left). You can also increase indentation by selecting the desired lines and hitting Tab, and using ShiftTab to decrease it. The one place I can think of where multiple selections would come in handy is if, for some reason, you need to indent/dedent by fewer spaces than are in your tab stop. For example, if I have some code that's indented 3 spaces, and I want to change it to 4 (using the Indent Using Spaces setting in the View -> Indentation menu), I would use a multiple selection to put a cursor on each line, then use Space or Backspace to adjust spacing appropriately.
Using TextMate on Mac, the "invisibles" can be displayed by using
View -> Show Invisibles
But the space vs tab characters are not shown, and Preferences doesn't seem to have any entry to change that either. Is there a way to show them? It is because some older coder may have tab or space mixed together so what looks good in the editor may actually be misaligned. (editor shows tab as 2 spaces)
Tab characters are shown, but spaces are not. What's probably happening is that you have Soft tabs turned on, in which case the tabs are converted into spaces automatically.
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In this picture there is a tab character, new line, tab character, new line, soft tab, new line
See this thread for an explanation as to why spaces are not shown.
Here is where you can change soft/real tabs.
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If "Show invisibles" is activated, you will see a little triangle for each tab, which points to the right. Spaces are not shown at all, you can only see them indirectly, i.e. via the symbol which represents the line break. If the line break isn't the first character after your code of that line, there are spaces in between.
So to make a long answer short: You should already see tabs, however the symbols representing the invisibles are sometimes hard to see.
How can I make code completion case-sensitive?
How can I make Ctrl-k kill the content of the line and the new line character?
How can I make backspace always delete only one character, no matter what it is? Right now, it deletes spaces in chunks equal to my indent level.
How to change the indentation style in file templates? I like to have the opening brace on its own line.
How can I make the font aliased?
I'm using Xcode 3.2.2.
EDIT: Issues 2, 4, and 5 are solved. 1 and 3 are still open.
EDIT2: ad.3. Yes, I set Xcode to use spaces, not tabs.
3.
Look in Preferences : Key Bindings : Text Key Bindings : Indent Friendly Delete Backwards
If the delete key is mapped to this entry change it to plain Delete Backwards.
2.
In that same preference area, you can see that there is no delete line option to map ^k to.
How can I make code completion case-sensitive?
I don't think that's possible.
How can I make Ctrl-k kill the content of the line and the new line character?
I can't answer that one, you might need to write a script to do it.
How can I make backspace always delete only one character, no matter what it is? Right now, it deletes spaces in chunks equal to my indent level.
Backspace always deletes one character. It sounds like your file has tab characters in it, each one of which takes up the space of 4 spaces by default. You can tell Xcode to use spaces instead by de-selecting Tab key inserts tab, not spaces in the Indentation preference panel.
How to change the indentation style in file templates? I like to have the opening brace on its own line.
You need to create custom file templates. You can find the Xcode templates here:
/Developer/Library/Xcode/Templates/File Templates
You need to copy the appropriate templates to this location:
~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/File Templates
You can then edit the template files to use whatever indents you like.
How can I make the font aliased?
You need to use a font that has aliased characters. Try Monaco at 9 or 10 points.