Is there a way to go to a matching brace in TextMate 1.5?
I can't just collapse the block because it's a badly formatted file, but the matching brace might be successfully recognized anyway. I just need to go to it (since it's distant more than 1-screen).
In TextMate 1.x you can select the contents of the surrounding braces using ⇧⌘B. After this you can use the arrow keys to go the start/end of the selection. You could record a macro to make this a single action.
In TextMate 2 going to matching brace can be done with ⌃↑ and ⌃↓. These keys can also be used with shift (⇧) to select to matching brace.
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In Xcode, if the cursor is on one brace (or bracket or parenthesis) of a matched pair, what keyboard shortcut will jump to the matching brace? Or how can I create such a shortcut?
An example of the feature I'm after is the "goto brace" shortcut in Visual Studio.
There is a Balance Delimiters menu command. So simply assign it any keyboard shortcut you prefer (all commands have customizable key bindings). You can also double-click the first delimiter to perform the same action.
A partial solution is to use code folding. For example, to jump from the opening brace to the closing brace:
Put the cursor just after the opening brace.
Fold with ⌥⌘←.
Arrow the cursor right to just before the closing brace.
Unfold with ⌥⌘←.
Since Xcode now has Vim mode you can use that and just hit %.
(Adding this answer for completeness - I understand it kind of amounts to "just use Vim".)
I am making the switch to VIM from Textmate and I wanted to know what should be included in my .vimrc to get the similar behavior for:
auto-close on brackets, paranthesis, etc.
auto tabbing after a bracket
when i open a bracket and select enter, the open bracket is on 1st line, the cursor on the 2nd line indented, and the closing bracket on the 3rd line
pressing <tab> on for will generate a common 'for' use
Thanks.
The first thing to be aware is that you can't turn Vim into TextMate. The second, is that you shouldn't even try.
Instead, focus your efforts on learning Vim, progressively, and grow/shrink your collection of settings and plugins as you need. Using Janus or some other "distro" will only occult Vim behind other people's arbitrary choices.
That said,
"auto-close on brackets, paranthesis, etc."
can be done in a "dumb" way by adding this line to your ~/.vimrc:
inoremap ( ()<Left>
inoremap is for mapping in insert mode (note the i)
( is the key you want to press, that's your trigger
()<Left> means input a pair of parenthesis then go back one character, between the parenthesis
If you need a "smarter" way, there are a many plugins to choose from.
You might want to try surround which was in and of itself a very compelling reason for me to switch from TextMate.
"when i open a bracket and select enter, the open bracket is on 1st line, the cursor on the 2nd line indented, and the closing bracket on the 3rd line"
can be done in many ways as well, for example:
inoremap <C-Return> <CR><CR><C-o>k<Tab>
inoremap, again
<C-Return> means Ctrl+Return, that's your trigger
<CR><CR> means 2 carriage returns to push the closing bracket 2 lines below
<C-o> to leave insert mode only for one command
k to go up one line
<Tab> to put the insertion cursor at the right place
Mappings in Vim can be just that: shortcuts for sequences of keypresses or more serious scripts.
"pressing <Tab> on for will generate a common 'for' use"
can be done with a dedicated plugin like SnipMate. There are others.
auto-close on brackets, paranthesis, etc.
There are a number of plugins for this functionality: autoclose, closepairs, simplepairs
auto tabbing after a bracket
By this, I believe you mean automatic indentation. This is a default Vim behavior when you're working on a supported filetype. If you're just starting on a file and haven't saved it, you can manually set the filetype with :set ft=<whatever filetype you want> and you'll get indentation and syntax highlighting.
when i open a bracket and select enter, the open bracket is on 1st line, the cursor on the 2nd line indented, and the closing bracket on the 3rd line
This will be taken care of with the above auto-close plugins.
pressing tab on for will generate a common 'for' use
These are called "snippets" in TextMate. Snipmate is a commonly used Vim plugin for snippets. Other people prefer xptemplate.
If you're moving from TextMate to Vim, I would try installing Janus and thoroughly reading the documentation.
Janus is a great starter distribution of plugins and mappings for Vim, gVim, and MacVim. It features sane defaults and aims to provide a minimal working environment using the most popular plug-ins and the most common mappings. It was developed and is maintained by Carl Lerche and former TextMate user Yehuda Katz.
My own personal experience/advice is that you can really drive yourself crazy trying to mimic every feature of your favorite editor exactly as it was. Each feature you're trying to replicate is probably just a quirk you became used to through muscle memory. You'll be much more productive if you just start "accepting" Vim, learning it, and re-train your muscle memory for it.
now i am using vs2010 trail version.
i want to see the matching braces if there are multiple braces. the opening brace and the closing brace must be highlight.. how to achieve this?
Thank you,
Mihir
The link above should give you all default key mappings.
Another useful link is: Pre-defined keyboard shortcuts
I'd just like to mention a couple that I find very useful:
To jump back and forth between matching braces, you can put your cursor on either brace, and then push Ctrl-]
And also Ctrl-M Ctrl-L toggles all outlining in the current file, and Ctrl-M Ctrl-M toggles the current region
from msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/be94e8aw%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
outlines all the options and how to set them up
for javascript: Brace highlighting in Visual Studio for Javascript?
With Eclipse/Java one of the shortcuts I used a lot was selecting expressions. alt+shift+up would increase selection to the next parent/enclosing expression, alt+shift+down would bring it back down.
Is there anything like this for XCode/Objective-C. What about when using vi?
I don't know about any keyboard shortcuts, but in XCode double-clicking a parentheses, curly bracket, square bracket, or quote will select the corresponding expression/block.
Doesn't seem to be any way to do this, even in XC4. Sad.
is there a way to have Xcode append a closing bracket ")" when I type the opening one "("? I know that it does this for those {}. I really miss Textmate :( A generic way to define which chars should be automatically inserted when the opening ones are entered would be kickass.
In Xcode 3.1 go to Preferences->Indentation
Check Syntax-ware indenting to on
and check Automatically insert closing "}"
and choose the characters you want to be inserted when the opening one is.
Also why not use Textmate nothing stops you and Xcode will notice if a file is edited externally
Have a look under Edit->Insert Text Macro->Objective C->Bracket Expression. This will insert a matched pair of brackets (or if you have something highlighted, put brackets around it). You could bind this to [ as a keyboard shortcut.
You can follow the instructions here to create one for parentheses. I tried but couldn't make it work.
http://cocoawithlove.com/2008/06/hidden-xcode-build-debug-and-template.html#textmacros
Personally, I drag the classes folder over to Textmate and edit there. I switch back to Xcode when I need to type in some long method name, or to build. I've been building a library of snippets for some of the common things I do in Textmate to make life easier there.