Coming from Visual Studio, I've grown accustomed to having automatic autocomplete when I type a non-alphanumeric character:
At this point in time, if I press space (or ), ;, etc.), Visual Studio will assume I want public and will insert it for me.
I'd like this functionality in Vim. The default autocomplete is close (pressing
Ctrl+P while in Insert mode), but I'd like to have the autocomplete dropdown open automatically.
I tried out the AutoComplPop plugin, which pops open the options dropdown automatically, but also requires the user to press Enter to actually insert the selection:
Is there a plugin that provides Visual Studio-style autocomplete functionality? Or is there a way to configure Vim's default autocomplete to behave in this manner?
Just to be clear, I'm not asking about the suggestions provided by Vim's autocomplete (I've found plenty of documentation about adding custom dictionaries), but rather the mechanics of the autocomplete itself.
Unlike <Down> and <Up> which only move down and up the popup menu, <C-n> and <C-p> also insert the selected suggestion so you can just keep typing (a <space>, a .…) without having to press <CR>.
For what it's worth, I've forked AutoComplPop to add PHP and JavaScript support and just hacked in support for the kind of interaction you want.
Fear not citizens, enter YouCompleteMe: finally a good, intelligent code completion plugin for Vim. It's free, fast and will save you lots of time. Couple YouCompleteMe with Supertab and you'll be even more of a coding machine than you already are in Vim. source
https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe
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I have just migrated from Atom, there, I was using Vim-plus but now on VS Code I have switched to neovim, but the problem is, there are many conflicting keybindings.
I tried to change them manually (something like, to close editor, 'Ctrl+c+t', which I mapped to close editor's tab, similarly others).
But I feel that's very unproductive and also can cause strain in my fingers. So any suggestions, or keybindings config of anyone which I can use alongside the NeoVim to increase my productivity. Or any other suggestions how to properly configure my VS Code?
NOTE: I know about the existence of an Atom Keybindings Extension which I honestly don't care, as I was mainly using Vim keybindings there and never bother to learn atom specific keybindings.
If you want VS Code to act like VIM, which is super unique in its interface and keybindings, there is an extension called:
VSCode Vim
VSCode Vim's Marketplace ID: vscodevim.vim
Personally I can't stand the VIM keybindings, so I don't know how great the extension is, but I know people who use it. It has 2.4 million downloads and counting. I also know, because of my buddy, that its not perfect, but it's close.
As with any other extension, don't just install it and hope it's what you wanted "out-of-the-box", this theme is customizable, and requires you to configure it. Make sure you read the README.md, and set it up so you know that it is best suited for your expectations.
If you are already using the VSCode VIM Extension, and you find that you are having conflicting issues using the keybindings associated with it. You can troubleshoot them using the keybindings troubleshooting tool by selecting it from the quick input menu.
Press F1
Type the phrase: "Keyboard Shortcut Troubleshooting"
Select the option "DEVELOPER: Toggle Keyboard Shortcut Troubleshooting Tool"
The tool should open in the console below. The menu might look like gibberish at first, however; the output of the newly opened console should make more sense once you use a familiar keybinding. Make sure that the console window is scrolled to the bottom and opened wide enough so your able to read everything logged. The tool will tell you what is attached to the keybinding your using, so you can see any conflicts that are happening, and what the key is set to do by you, by extensions, and by default.
Make changes to your keybindings.json file as necessary.
When writing reports in RMarkdown I realized that hitting Ctrl+B for bold or Ctrl+I for italic won't emphasize the text marked. Many other Markdown editors (for example the editor on StackOverflow) do this job.
For the moment I work with Shift+* after marking the text I want to show in bold which returns *text* which would be displayed in italic. However for making something bold I need to do this twice. And returning the action (removing the **) is not possible with this procedure.
Is there a hidden button somewhere in RStudio where I can turn this option on? Or is there some other solution to this problem like a package who does the job?
One way to do it is installing the addin remedy remotes::install_github("ThinkR-open/remedy") and then to map your preferred key combination to the bold formatting offered by the addon.
So, it's a two-step process. First, install remedy, and then modify the keyboard shortcuts (Tools > Modify Keyboard Shortcuts...).
After installing remedy, there should be a 'bold' option for you in the shortcuts' list to make the binding.
I am using a notebook without a mouse.
After typing prop and pressing tab, Visual Studio will automatically give me a property template. Pressing tab will move the cursor between type and propertyname placeholders.
I want to move the cursor to a new line after completing the property template.
Is there a shortcut to do so?
Press the Enter key twice.
I tried to post this answer 3 times before I left the comment. It wouldn't let me, too short. That's why I'm typing this otherwise useless verbiage.
It's not specific to snippets, but you can press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to start a new line below where the cursor currently is.
To insert a new line above where the cursor currently is, use Ctrl+Enter.
Both of these work anywhere in the editor. Both of these are handy because they work no matter where you are horizontally on your current line.
Update: Productivity PowerTools for VS2010 (Woot! 2012 too) provides the keyboard shortcut Tools.AddEndTokenAtEnd. (Thanks Ben.)
For some reason, magically, my VS2010 does this with Shift-Enter (which I prefer from my experience with TextMate.) Looking at my keyboard bindings (Tools > Customize > Keyboard) I see that this shortcut is assigned to the command Tools.AddEndTokenAtTheEnd. So if that command appears in your list of commands, assigning a keyboard shortcut to it should work. I have Productivity Power Tools, PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010, and ReSharper installed. But I can't find any setting from the first two that would be responsible, and, in my experience, all of ReSharper's commands contain its name, so I don't think it added the command. Ooo, and I just discovered that the reason it is named that is because the command also ensures there's a semicolon at the end of the initial line before moving the cursor down; just like the useful keyboard shortcut in Textmate.
I'm interested, but baffled by the 2x-Enter solution. When I press enter twice I get two line breaks followed by whatever code was after the cursor on the first line. Can anyone explain how that shortcut/key-combination works? Is it time-sensitive so that the two enters must be pressed in rapid succession? What if the user wants to quickly insert some lines above some code and hits Return multiple times!?
I've started using F# with the visual studio shell and I like the capability to be able to send lines to fsi by highlighting them, but the alt+Enter shortcut is really awkward and I would be much happier with this being on shift+Enter. (mainly since shift+ up/down arrow is select lines already)
Does anyone know how to change this? Thanks.
You can alter the keyboard mappings within Visual Studio. If you go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard, you'll see a window like the image below.
In order to check existing bindings, place the cursor in the "Press shortcut keys:" box and hit "Shft+Enter". You'll then see any potential conflicts in the drop-down box as shown.
In the example below, I'm searching through Global, which means shortcuts for anything in the application. You can switch it to be just the console or whatever you like.
Once you're happy with the shortcut you want to use, you need to select the command from the window containing all of the Action.* lines and then press Assign.
So I don't mean to be trite, but have you tried mapping the key?
So for F# Interactive I see Alt+Enter mapped to:
ClassViewContextMenus.ClassViewMultiselectProjectreferencesItems.Properties
Have your tried mapping Shift+Enter (or whatever) to that command?
Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard
You should be able to get it all working from there.
On Eclipse, whenever I double click a tab, it fills the workspace (by hiding all other views like project tree, console, etc).
Is there any way to do this on Visual Studio?
Note: i'm not looking for full screen, just want a way to declutter the workspace but still have access to menus.
Are you after this?
Set shortcuts for the Window.AutoHideAll function and for the Window.ResetWindowLayout function. In order for the ResetWindowLayout to work, you have to export your settings (make sure you select "All Settings") with all windows expanded and then import them again.
ResetWindowLayout will restore all windows to the way they were the last time you imported your settings.
Not with double click on tab, but you can do the same with Shift+Alt+Enter key combination.
This keyboard shorcut was changed to F11 from 1.9.1 vscode version.
All keyboard Shortcuts: https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
I was looking for that, as well, and I now just got used to using full screen (Shift+Alt+Enter), which hides a little too much, which you seem to think, as well, but does in fact still show the menus.
Looks like drby got it on this one. Just FYI. I pinged the VS team to ask about this and here is the response:
"There is no way to reverse the command automatically. For it to work as a toggle we would need to save which toolwindows were auto hidden and which ones were not when the command was run, which we don’t do (it would cause lots of interesting persistence questions, across profiles and VS sessions)."
The idea of a "Unhide All" command is what I suggested. So if you hide all then you can unhide all as well. There might be some windows you don't want to unhide but the 1 or 2 extra windows is better than not having an unhide IMHO.