I am switching to textmate and there are a few things I want to change. I have tried Googling for the answer, but haven't found a simple explanation for how to rebind shortcuts globally.
First, tab switching doesn't work with Cmd+Shift+{ and Cmd+Shift+} This works in nearly every other application (FF, Terminal, etc.)
How do bind those keys to switch tabs?
Second, I would like Ctrl+j/k/l/; to move the cursor, it it possible to rebind that command to the arrow keys?
Thanks in advance.
Yes. For the arrow keys, you can record a macro (Bundles > Macros > Start Recording, [press an arrow], Stop Recording, Save Last Recording. It'll make a macro with the one command moveLeft: or similar. Set a key equivalent and you're done.
For the tab switching, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and add new shortcuts for menu items called "Next File Tab" and "Previous File Tab". Restart TextMate, and you're done.
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What I really like with a text editor (or IDE) is to be able to easily remap its keyboard shortcuts to what I want, and Xcode seems to do a bad job with this.
I want to be able to switch file tabs by using option + command + arrow (left and right arrows). However, when I try to change keyboard shortcuts for the Show Previous Tab and Show Next Tab actions, the option key is not applied.
In the screenshot, you can see—through KeyCastr—how I pressed the option + command + right arrow keys and end up with command + right arrow in Xcode, the option key is missing.
Is there any solution? Note that the option key can be used on some actions, for example I can use it with the About Xcode action, but this is obviously not what I want.
I'm using Xcode 13.4.1.
Okay so I've found a solution. Not a perfect one but it works!
There is no way to use the option key in some actions because they are constrained by the Navigation in Xcode preferences.
Instead you can change the system preferences to add a new shortcut to the Xcode app.
However, when you will use those keyboard shortcuts in Xcode, you will see a weird behavior where the tab you are switching to, gets opened in a new editor.
This is due to the default navigation preferences of Xcode, change the "Optional Navigation" preference from "Uses Next Editor" to "Uses Tab".
I am trying to display all possible words after putting the cursor in certain place in the code.
The autocomplete list appears when I start writing/typing:
However, I would like to see all suggested words even before typing.
I tried command + space, however it was a system shortcut for Search in macOS:
Any thoughts?
In case you are a CJK user using Mac, Ctrl+Space will not work, since it is used to switch IMEs.
There is another keyboard shortcut for triggering suggestions:
Option+Esc (Mac)
Alt+Esc (Windows)
Also see this post.
VS code version: 1.41.1
I solved this problem using fn+control+space.
Hope it helps you.
"change input source" keyboard shortcut should be disabled
To disable it->
Go to system preferences -> keyboard -> input sources
add a new input source (choose ABC)
Go to shortcuts tab (inside of keyboard settings)
Click on input sources on the left
disable the "select previous input source" shortcut
restart your vs code and now ctrl+space will show quick suggestions.
You can use the following alternative keyboard shortcuts:
⌘+I (mentioned in the official VS Code documentation for "Trigger suggestion")
⌥+esc
fn+control+space
The shortcut for the "Trigger Suggest" command is ⌃Space (ctrl+space) — as mentioned in the comments.
Most default shortcuts can be found in the documentation, which will automatically show the correct keybindings for the system you're on. In other words, if you visit the page on a Mac, you'll see Mac keybindings.
Additionally, you can:
go to Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (on a Mac) and search for keybindings based on the command you want to execute
open up "show all commands" (⇧⌘P on a Mac) and search for the command there, allowing you to either view the keybinding for that command, or simply navigate to it directly from the search
Of course you'd have to have some idea of what the command's name might be. And in this case, a search for "suggest" would suffice.
If you use too many keyboard layouts, maybe the MacOS shortcut might be active. You can disabled ^(Ctrl)+Space shortcuts for MacOS.
System Preferences>Keyboard>Shorcuts>Input Sources> Disable Select the previous input source.
You can use next shortcut for change input sources.Ctrl+Alt+Space
when I was set up 2 keyboards with different layouts, and it turn out it overrides the ^+Space behavior, so this is how fix it:
Go to system preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts
Click on input sources
and disable the "select previous input source" shortcut
On my mac, typing Option-Shift-R in any text field in any program inserts a "‰" character. The problem is that I use Option-Shift-R as a special shortcut in another program (PyCharm), and whenever I use this key it both executes the action in pycharm and types the character, which is annoying.
Given that I've never once needed the "per-mille" symbol in my life, is there a way on mac to disable this shortcut? There seems to be no option for it in the "Keyboard -> Shortcuts" menu.
It is your keyboard layout that's producing "‰" when you press Option-Shift-R. (It's also what produces "A" when you press the A key, and everything else.)
You can try switching to a different built-in keyboard layout using System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources, but you probably won't find one which produces nothing when you press Option-Shift-R.
So, your best bet is probably to create a custom keyboard layout and use that. There's an app called Ukelele that can help create such custom keyboard layouts. I haven't check recently, but I'm fairly sure it can create a new one by copying one of the built-in layouts, which you then tweak just a bit so most things work just as you expect.
I'm used to Netbeans and all its shortcuts (e.g. ctrl+e to delete a line), but I'm new to Visual Studio, so I don't like its keypress combinations that much.
When I changed all the hotkeys I need (e.g. alt+shift+up/down to move lines up and down), I also tried to set deleting a line to ctrl+e.
The problem is that when I press ctrl+e now, the IDE waits for me to press another key, because there are hotkeys that go like "ctrl+e followed by ctrl+something".
Do I have to disable all the other hotkeys if I just want to use ctrl+e, or can I tell the IDE something like "when nothing is pressed after ctrl+e for 500ms, then dont wait any longer"?
Thanks in advance.
PS: Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
These multi-sequence keystrokes are called chords, and Visual Studio uses them because it has so many commands that there would otherwise be nowhere near enough keyboard shortcuts to invoke them all. And no, you cannot set a timeout value.
You have to disable all of the other keyboard shortcuts that involve Ctrl+E, otherwise the software will have no way of knowing if it should keep waiting for you to press the second part of the chord.
Here's a hint that may make your life easier. When you arrive at the Environment → Keyboard options, don't bother to select anything. Just leave everything at their defaults and click in the "Press shortcut keys" box. Type Ctrl+E. Now, the dialog will give you a list of all the currently-mapped shortcuts that use Ctrl+E.
On my installation, all but one of them are specific to the "Workflow Designer". Only one is used by the "Text Editor"—Edit.ToggleWordWrap, which is mapped to Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W. Since you will only be deleting lines in the text editor, you don't actually need to worry about unmapping all of the shortcuts for the Workflow Designer scope. You can just set up your shortcut as being specific to the text editor. Stepwise:
Remove the keyboard shortcut for Edit.ToggleWordWrap. (You can do this quickly by typing "toggleword" into the "Show command containing" textbox.) Click the "Remove" button.
Now, switch to Edit.LineDelete.
Change the "Use new shortcut in" combobox to "Text Editor".
Click in the "Press shortcut keys" box, and type a good old chordless Ctrl+E.
Click "Assign", and you're done (unless you want to change ToggleWordWrap to something else).
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.