There seems to be a a series of problems related to using the keyboard (only) on the mac - as opposed to resorting to the mouse. I am wondering if people have figured out workarounds for some of these issues.
Example 1: Hitting Enter does not work. Hitting tab does not work.Hitting space does not work. Only way to 'accept'/close the dialog is to mouse over and hit ok. Yuck.
Example 2: Using The Option button we can the "Do Refactor has D underlined - so clicking option-D should accept. However it does not work. Once again - only way is to click using the mouse
Example 3: In refactor dialog, one can not hit "return" or tab over or use "alt-r" to accept the Refactor. Once again - using mouse is the only way.
Example 4: In ANY open file dialog you have to type in manually the entire path. This one is confirmed bug by JetBrains, and I wonder if anyone has an idea of workaround
Click on the "option" key and the Mnemonics DO show up. I discovered this by accident.
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I'm trying to reduce my mouse usage in Visual Studio. Until now I haven't been able to access the drop down lists in the "Package Manager Console" - see the attached picture.
The letter "k" in "Paketquelle" is underlined, but pressing Alt+K or any combos of Tab+Modifier key will not focus the drop-down lists. Based on this post I tried Ctrl+F2 for no good. Any ideas?
PS: Unfortunately I have to use the localized german version, but this should not be a problem.
Wow, I feel retarded now. A simple Shift+Alt+K did the trick. You can then cycle the bar with Tabulator, putting the focus back on the console by pressing Esc.
I can't seem to set a conditional breakpoint in Firebug. Every Google search I've done indicates that I should be able to Right-click the line of code in question, at which point a "bubble" will appear asking me for the condition on which the break should be executed. Right clicking does in fact toggle the breakpoint's existence, but no bubble appears. How/where do I enter my condition?
Of course Mac mouses don't have a "right-click" button but assumed I could simulate right-click using Control. I've also tried Alt and Command to no avail.
I am running on Mac/Yosemite.
Thanks.
To be precise you need to right-click the breakpoint column or right-click inside the line and then choose Edit Breakpoint Condition... from the context menu. If you do so the condition editor should appear, which looks like this on Windows (on Mac it's black):
There is currently (Firebug 2.0.x) no keyboard shortcut for this action, so right-clicking is not working for you, it might be a bug in Firebug. In that case you should go through the steps described at Firebug's first aid page and file a bug if the steps don't help you.
I am very new to this, and my c9 terminal seems to be frozen. The cursor is blinking, but when I try to enter text, nothing shows up. I have tried exiting my workspace and reloading and it still will not work.
Opening a new terminal tab with the View menu or pressing ALT-T is the best bet to get a working terminal back (as mentioned in the comment above)... you may also find that having selected the broken terminal though, you can't click things in your menus anymore. I've found that pressing the Preview button and then closing it, seems to get the UI to be responsive again.
Supports official response is that you should perform workspace reset using ?reset=1 after your workspace url (which doesn't last or work very well in my experience).
This can happen after pressing ctrl-s, pressing ctrl-q should restore it. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/12108/41174 for explanation.
I tried ALT-T and ?reset=1. Nothing helped in my case.
I managed to bring my frozen terminal back to life by closing its tab. I ignored the warning that all processes would stop. Then I clicked on the rightmost tab with a plus sign. In the menu I selected "New Terminal".
You can click at the top right where CPU usage is shown. Then click on "Restart" when the menu appears.
When I Ctrl+Shift+F in VS2010, it puts whatever is near my cursor in the "Find what:" box - this is very irritating and never what I want.
Is there any way to make it default instead to the last thing I searched for?
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Find and Replace -> Automatically populate Find What with text from the editor
If you uncheck this option it will default to the last thing you searched for.
an nice. Glad i found this...
two work arounds i figured out... if you do want to search in selected text only sometimes but not all the time...
Mouse: Click back on the page and ctrl+A (its faster than having to grab the mouse and clicking the tiny drop down.)
Keyboard only: Well you cant technically do this, with any one command from http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/14/ but you can do this.
while find is active, hit
alt+F6
to get out of find and then hit
esc
to activate the document then
ctrl+A
to search the whole document
I am glad to find how to turn this off, but i am used to this keyboard commands now. So maybe i will leave it on.
if you don't learn to use the escape key in VS, especially for intellisense you are going to seriously drive yourself crazy.
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.