I just bought a cool new DAS Keyboard without the letters on the keys. Unfortunately, I was trying to hit a particular short-cut combination and I must have hit the wrong keys. Now all of the spaces in my code files have - instead.
How do I get rid of those?
Thank you
Go to Edit -> Advanced and uncheck "View whitespace".
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When I write something like Console. I get suggestions like Console.Write and Console.WriteLine. I don't want to use the arrow keys, they are too far away, how do create a shortcut for that? I would prefer something like shift+o for moving up and shift+k for moving down.
Try TouchCursor, it lets you use the home keys as cursor key
TouchCursor
You can always remap the keyboard shortcuts to do what you want. See my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18744507/958809
I don't if there is an alternative for navigating one by one but you can use the first letters of every word to quickly find what you are looking for.
Typing Console.wl will quickly bring up Console.WriteLine. It's available by ReSharper I think.
You don't even have to type the first letters by the order. Typing avl can bring up SomeMethodWithAVeryLongName.
I don't know solutions within Visual Studio and ReSharper.
But maybe a remapping of keyboard keys can help, i.e. remap Caps Look key to Arrow Down key. See http://www.askdrtech.com/solutions/post/How-to-change-keyboard-mapping.aspx for explanation.
I think your problem is just this: Ctrl + Alt + Space
In VS Code, go to File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Search for suggest select in the search bar
the ones you want to change are selectNextSuggestion and selectPrevSuggestion. I mapped mine to TAB and shift + TAB, respectively, to free my arrow keys.
There's plenty of cool stuff you can customize for Intelisense. Check the documentation page: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense
In Xcode < 4, you could hold the "option" key, and the "Replace All" button would change to "Replace in Selection". As of Xcode 4, this does nothing. Anyone know if there's a new way to do it, or is it bug filing time?
This appears to be working again now, at least in Xcode 4.4.1.
When the find/replace bar appears at the top of the editor, holding down the option key on the keyboard causes "Replace in Selection" to appear in lieu of "Replace All."
I'm glad, because this was an ANNOYING omission.
Another workaround:
In Xcode, select the text, press copy
In a terminal session:
pbpaste|sed 's/SOURCETEXT/NEWTEXT/g'|pbcopy
Return to Xcode window, press paste
Since the original should still be selected, it will just be replaced. You could probably build a simple shell script to do this.
Doug
An few images to supplement the chosen answer:
And holding down Option:
See also
Find/Replace in Xcode using Regular Expressions
Seems like missing functionality. You should file a bug report.
I'm upset that they took out this functionality, as I used it constantly, but here's my workaround. Copy your selected text from Xcode4 to TextEdit or some other word processor, do the find and replace there, and then copy the results back into Xcode.
It's not sexy but it's worth it if you do a lot of these "find and replace on my selection", and you leave the word processor open in Spaces as you work.
They should add "my selection" as an alternative to "workspace" and "my scope".
There is another way only replace the matches you find, rather than just this one or all of them.
I suggest you save a copy first, just in case....
In Find and Replace, Show Find Options (you can do this by pressing the magnifying glass).
Press Preview.
Uncheck all the ones you don't want replacing.
Press Replace
Hope that helps, it did me.
Not ideal, but not too bad:
Do a find and replace in workspace (cmd-opt-shift-f) enter your desired find/replace
Enter your desired search term and hit return
Select the range of replacements from the list of matches on the left
Hit replace (not replace all)
To replace text in a selection using Xcode 9
Press Option-Command-F to bring up the find/replace box.
Enter the search and replace string. Changing the search string will lose any existing selection, so..
Make your selection (again). (If you don't do this, the selection will be the first search string found only)
Hold down the key and "Replace All" will change to "Replace Selection", then click it.
Once you understand that you make your selection AFTER you have entered the search string, then this is not that clumbersome and works fine.
I find alt-command-f easier for local find and replace (4.3) and then working around your selection.
EthenA.Wilson asked in a comment to the OP a couple of days ago:
"Is there a way to do this in Xcode 5?"
For the benefit of those who, like me, had been searching for it, here's how:
After you put your Find and Replace terms in the bars at the top left-hand side of the editor page, select the text you want to search in, then look at the top right-hand side (same bar). You'll see where it says "All", right next to "Replace." Now press the Option key. "All" will change to "All in Selection." Click it, and you're done. Could be a bit more intuitive, but the functionality is there in Xcode 5.
Naturally, good idea to take a snapshot before you click!
HTH!
Not sure which feature prior to Xcode 4 you're referring to, but the shortcut Command+Shift+E gives you "Use Selection for Replace". If you're talking about "Find and Replace in Workspace" (Command+Option+Shift+F), then what you need to do is run your find and then hold down "Shift" or "Command" on the selections shown and then hit "Replace".
Noob xcoder here and for some reason i cannot get the text macros to expand within xcode. For example if i type ifelse and then hit ^. it doesnt automatically expand the macro?? Likewise if i type fo and then ^. it will complete it to either for,fori etc, and will also pop up those options if i hit escape however i cannot get it to expand the macros unless i am misunderstanding how this works?
Make sure the shortcut for menu item Edit->Next Completion is indeed ^. If it is not, go to Xcode preferences, Key Bindings and edit it.
Try rebuilding your code sense index from the Project Info panel.
In the mac terminal application there is a setting (preferences -> keyboard) that lets you set "use option as meta key". This is useful as a lot of unix boxes use bash as default shell and that has emacs keybindings M-f and M-b that let you skip words.
Problem is that on a Mac with a UK keyboard the # symbol is tricky to get to - normally it can be typed with alt-3, but not if you are in a terminal and alt=meta.
Anyone have a nice way round this?
I am using zsh and the following saved my day:
bindkey -s '^[3' \#
Set your keyboard language ( System Preferences->International->InputMenu ) to Australian
It is the same as UK except shift-3 gives #. You do lose the pound sign but if I do currency I use the ISO three character code GBP
The Australian layout is identical as mentioned except # is mapped to Shift 3 and £ is mapped to Alt 3.
Swap to Aus and the swap your ALT behaviour. This has annoyed me for while especially as it is in a non UK position to start with.
Earlier today I stumbled on a great solution to this on Graeme Sutherland's blog so thought I'd summarise it here in case it disappears.
If you want to stick with the built-in Terminal and don't want to lose the £ sign, you can use Ukelele roll your own keyboard layout to switch the section (§) key for hash instead. Quite a handy location for typing '#!' too :)
The keymap file Graeme created is here, but if you want to make your own you can simply take the British one as a base it's pretty straightforward to create the new keymap file.
Copy your new keymap file to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts
Go to System Preferences - Language & Text - Input Sources
Scroll down to 'British with # for §' (or whatever you put as its name in Ukelele) and check the box
Check 'Show Input menu in menu bar'
Click on the flag in your menu bar at the top of the screen and choose your new input source
This input source can then be used in all apps, or just the ones you want it for.
I appreciate this and the linked question are quite old but thought this might help someone else.
ESC is another meta shortcut :). You don't have to keep pressing it though.
So in your situation, you might just need to press ESC once, and then press alt-3.
See image to get the details as to how to setup a shortcut in your terminal and fly free
I'm using iTerm2 and I was having this problem. With iTerm2 you can use the left alt key as a meta key, and the right as a normal key. So ralt-3 does the # key.
Based on ericteubert answer for zsh for bash you bind the key, I've added this to my .bash_profile:
bind '"\e3":"#"'
For vim you can add the following to your .vimrc
inoremap <ESC>3 #
Every once in a while I'll do something that causes strang behavior when pressing certain keys.
1)The single quote key (') will not type a character unless I press it twice, in which case it will print two backwards single quote characters (``).
2)The ` (backwards single quote?) key types a # character.
3)The angle bracket keys (< and >) type a single quote (') and a period (.).
4)Shift + any A-Z character types the character and brings the code completion window up.
I'm sure there's other symptomps, and they only want I've found to stop it is to restart Visual studio. This behavior does not appear in any other apps. Anybody experience this?
I started getting this on my computer (not in Visual Studio, but everywhere else). I had default input language set to "English(New Zealand) - United States-International", whatever that is supposed to mean. Changed it to English-US. Disabled the "Language Bar"
"Control Panel >> Regional Settings >> Languages, click on Advanced, look at Installed Services. See if you have multiple choices - if you have an "International" option, remove it and I believe the problem will go away. It did for me.
AFAIK, this happened when I installed XP-SP3.
You probably have an alternate input language set up (try typing ` a when this happens and you'll get à). I think the default hotkey to switch between input languages is Ctrl+Shift, so you're probably hitting it by accident occasionally. Use the language settings control panel to turn off the hotkey or remove the unwanted keyboard configuration.
I have a laptop/keyboard which can be used for French-Canadian. Alternative key-meanings are printed on some keys (in green) ... and they match the keys you mentioned, i.e.:
alt of ' is ``
alt of ` is #
alt of < and > are ' and .
I have an edition of Vista installed that knows about French-Canadian. On the right-hand end of the O/S Taskbar, near the clock, there's a keyboard icon. It's usually set to "US but if I set it to "Canadian French" then I get the key mappings you describe.
Something similar (i.e. changing the language-specific interpretation of the keyboard) must be happening on your machine too. You say it's in Visual Studio, but for me I find it in my O/S.
If you have multiple languages on your machine, then you probably triggered this behavior by pressing ctrl+shift, which causes windows to switch the system language for the active window.
You can either press it again, or better yet, disable the language bar and all other secondary languages.
Like others have said, you can press ctrl-shift to "loop" through the settings.