Looking for a shortcut in Visual Studio to surround a selected tag by
<table><tr><td>my selected element</td></tr></table>
I am using Visual Studio 2013.
Anything in plain vanilla VS? Web Essentials? Resharper? CodeRush?
CodeRush can certainly solve this issue for you.
Ruben is quite correct. We have a "Surround with Tag" refactoring which can be applied successively with 'td', 'tr' and then 'table' (working from inside out.
Alternatively you could create a template:
Structure only
<table><tr><td>«Caret»</td></tr></table>
This would create the table structure you are after and place your caret ready to enter the data of your choice.
Structure with Paste
<table><tr><td>«Paste»</td></tr></table>
This would create the structure you are after and paste the content of your clipboard inside it.
Existing Template
The built-in .t template will create a much more complex table structure under your guidance, and plugins can be written to address a specific need.
NOTE: These techniques make use of cutting the target element to the clipboard. If your target element is sufficiently complex, this would make selecting and cutting seem like too much work.
However... another CodeRush feature (Smart Cut\Copy) will make this much easier. Simply position the caret immediately to the left of your target and cut. CodeRush will detect that nothing is selected and will dynamically select the logical element to it's right before continuing with the cut operation.
At this point your task becomes
Cut
Invoke template
(Optionally) paste.
All of these steps are invokable using just the keyboard.
If all else fails... :)
If this does not meet your need, please feel free to comment below, or contact me directly (roryb#devexpress.com) and we can discuss your needs in more detail.
I created a new Surround template in Resharper.
<table><tr><td>$SELECTION$$END$</td></tr></table>
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Is there a command/macro/keyboard shortcut that will expand the region where the cursor is and expand all collapsed regions inside it (recursively) ? if not can that be achieved ?
Short answer
As far as I know - No. There isn't a single shortcut that does that.
How to implement it by yourself
It's quite easy to create a plugin for Visual Studio that does exactly that:
Get the cursor location.
Store the 'start' and 'end' line numbers
For each line:
If it contains a region - expand it.
Few examples to begin with:
https://github.com/LeonalaDiantes/RegionsWasher
https://github.com/dnperfors/RegionExpander
https://github.com/fsdsabel/ExpandRegions
https://github.com/pauljmelia/regionsareevil
https://github.com/yasam100/CodeRegionsSnippets-VSExtension
Some of the projects are very close to the thing you have in mind, so you might even fork it and do your changes.
:-)
Another option
you might get the same result by using Macros for Visual Studio Editor/Recorder:
And then, write a macro like this one or maybe even record the steps you like to "run".
IMO, with recording and playing it will be a little harder to achieve.
but I'll be happy to be proved wrong.
I had the same problem, the following worked for me without having to make a macro or a plugin. Note, this is only a partial solution to the problem. I got it to expand recursively underneath a function, but I'm not sure how to reverse it (i.e. recursively collapse everything under the function again). To recursively collapse everything again, I could only figure to use (Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L), which collapses/expands everything in your file, but then you have to drill back down to the function you want.
Firstly, I got everything in a collapsed state by pressing (Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L). You may have to use that combination twice to get everything to collapse. Then I expanded a class and drilled down to the function I wanted to work on.
With the function in its collapsed state, I highlighted the single collapsed row it was on and pressed (Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M).
Doing so recursively expanded everything under the function.
I hope this partial solution helps someone who doesn't want to make a macro or plugin.
I believe ctrl + k followed by ctrl+] should unfold all subregions
replacing the ] with [ should fold all subregions.
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.
Thanks
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 don't quite know how to phrase this question, but basically what happens is:
if i smart indent in visual studio, then click somewhere else on the page or even on the exact same line that has the smart indent, it then goes away, as if I'd had no indenting at all, not even block indenting.
It just puts the cursor/insertion point at the very beginning of the line.
EDIT: BTW I recently formatted my computer and I'm almost certain this wasn't the case before, I'm guessing it's a setting, but I've been fiddling around with all the settings trying to change this, but I can't.
Open Tools->Options. Navigate to Text Editor on the LHS. Select the source type (C++, VB, etc.). Open the tree view node and select Tabs. There, on the RHS you'll find your option
When I extract a method in CodeRush, it has some default formatting. I'd like to change it. Specifically, when I choose the location of the extracted method, CodeRush smashes it in, directly above the method I put the location marker at.
So:
When I choose to drop the extracted method, like this:
It ends up looking like this:
What I want is for it to have some control over how the method looks, at the moment I want to add some blank lines between it and the next method. How can I do that?
Open the DevExpress -> Options dialog;
Go to the Editor | Code Formatting | Blank Lines option page;
Toggle the 'After multi-line members' option.
I requested this here: http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/p/S130722.aspx
It got implemented here: http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/p/S19229.aspx
There's now a massive formatting subsystem I spent 3 hours fighting that tries to outdo ReSharper's massive formatting subsystem which both need to be able to survive VS Autoformat (CtrlK D) and don't always.
Now you know it's there, I'd appreciate a quick summary from you as to whether you were able to make it do what you wanted!
Can anyone tell me if there's a quick way to format your code in Text Mate, similar to pressing ctrl K+D in Visual studio?
Thanks!
Edit by Damien_The_Unbeliever:
For those not familiar with Ctrl K+D, it doesn't just indent code - it reformats it using the generally established formatting conventions in the editor - it may replace spaces with tabs or vice-versa for the indentation, ensure code is consistently indented, move braces to separate lines, etc.
TextMate reindenting and reformatting varies a little depending on the language you're using.
You can generally use the Text menu, that depending wether you have an active selection or not it will show you different commands under it. For example, if you have selected a section of code, there will be a Indent Selection menu item. If you have no active selection, it will be Indent Line.
To have this working properly, be sure to select the current language, if it isn't assigned yet (like on unsaved documents). If you're working with HTML, it will simply indent the lines depending on what's above it. It will keep line breaks intact.
If you need something to break out tags on new lines and properly format the document, you should use the Tidy command that is found in the Bundles menu, under HTML (or simply by using the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+H. If you have a selection active at the moment that you use it, it will simply reindent that section. If instead you have no selection, it will properly reformat the whole document, including checking for tag validity and other errors.
The Bundles for other language have similar commands, like XML (still Tidy) and Javascript (that has a Reformat Document command).
As an ending note, I simply suggest to look into the Bundles menu; there are many little gems in it. ;)
Did you look in the menu bar? Under Text you have a couple of Reformat… entries that may fit your needs.
Beside these native features, some bundles — like the JavaScript one — have custom Reformat… commands : click on the little cog button at the bottom and explore your current language's bundle's content.