In various Jetbrains products with a vim extension, I can use shift+v to select multiple lines, then comment or uncomment the selected lines with the Jetbrains command+/ command. With vscod(ium) + NeoVim, when I perform this same combo of shift+v, then j or k until multiple lines are selected, then command+/ , it only comments/uncomments the current line of the cursor.
What is the best way to emulate the Jetbrains behavior in vscode (or vscodium)?
I work primarily in macOS.
I am aware of using ^ to go to the beginning of the current line, then control+v combined with j/k, then shift+i, etc, but this is far more commands and harder to perform than a simple multiline select and command+/, esp. for uncommenting.
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I have Googled a lot but cannot find one feature in VScode that I would appreciate greatly:
Copy (or move) rest of the current line (i.e. not the entire line) to the end of next line
Example:
What I have - note the cursor
What I need - again note the cursor
So ideally, with a single keyboard shortcut, I would copy (or move) the remainder of the current line (= "ABC1" in the example) to the end of the next line. Any ideas how to do that? Is it available within VScode, or is there a relevant extension? Thanks!
Since you're asking if there's an extension for it, the vim extensions should at least be mentioned. I have no intention or desire to start an(other) editor war, though.
What you're asking would be trivial in vim (y$, yank to end of line) and there are at least two very popular vim extensions for vscode that will bring the vim keybindings as well as the power of configurable commands and bindings in vim to vscode.
Yes, it would require some effort to learn the "vim way" of doing things, but the upside is that you'll probably never have to re-learn the bindings if you move between editors/IDEs since they are available in pretty much every editor and they make editing very fast and precise.
Drag and drop by mouse
Why are you not using mouse drag and drop text?
Select the text and drag it by mouse where you need
Otherwise, if you have multiple times then you can solve it in two steps.
Step1:
Replace all Name by Name(ctrl+enter)SecretCode
Step2:
Replace all "(ctrl+enter)SecretCode by "
Done
It happens from time to time that I need to edit 100+ lines in a text file all at once.
I know I can use ⌘ Cmd+↑/↓ to select multiple lines but depending on the size of the file that takes a while.
In Atom and Sublime, I can just do a ⌘ Cmd + a to select everything, hit another shortcut (forgot the actual shortcut) and end up with a cursor for every line.
Have not found this in VSCode.
Ctrl-a to select all. (or whatever muli-line selection you want)
Shift-alt-I will put cursors at end of each selected line.
And then if you want those cursors at the beginning of each line you need to trigger the command "cursorLineStart" which is unbound by default. Give it a keybinding and all those end-of-line cursors will jump to the beginning of each line.
With v1.43 and Column Selection Mode this can be quite easy, see Column selection like Visual Studio and How to put the cursor at the end of all selected lines in Visual Studio Code?
FWIW cursorLineStart is not the opposite of Shift-Alt-I. In looking at the commends, Shift-Alt-I is "Add cursors to line ends", but there is not a "Add cursors to line begins" option.
However, the easy trick for that is:
Select your text block
Shift-Alt-I to put a cursor at the end of each line
Command-LeftArrow will move those cursors to the beginning of the lines
Its an extra step but it works. When I get time I will play around with building a custom command to do all this in one action.
I'm trying to move to VS Code, and really like many of the feature.
But I'm really missing one of the most powerful editing features of sublime text: find_under_expand
i.e. select word with cursor, the select all other concurrences of this word by hitting ctrl+d.
Is there a way to reproduce this behavior in VS Code.
Ctrl-Shift-L : keyboard shortcuts, search for select all.
Ctrl-D adds the next match to the selection one-by-one.
As the title says, in visual studio code you can use the editor.action.joinLines to join different lines of text to one single line? Being an editor noob, the question is how? How do I map this command to a key board short cut, or what mouse actions do I need to do after selecting the said text, to get two different lines as one single line? Specifically I am working on Mac OS X.
To join several lines you have to select them first (you can read more about various ways of selecting text in the vs code documentation) and then invoke the Join Lines command. As a result, all text from the second and next lines will be appended to the end of first lines.
You can invoke the Join Lines command either from the Command Palette by pressing F1 or ⇧+⌘+P on macOS and typing Join Lines or by pressing the assigned shortcut - ⌃+J
You can also configure your own key bindings by clicking File>Preferences>Keyboardshortcuts on Vscode main menu.
There you can bind the command joinLines to your prefered Keyboard keys as shown in this link.
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Have some transcript files from terminal interaction, obtained using traditional Unix command "script".
Those transcripts contain lots of control character (like backspace when editing shell commands), and lots of color code sequences as result of running various commands. Occasionally, even colorful full-terminal (ncurses-based) applications like "emacs -nw" or "aptitude" were run.
At program runtime, TERM environment variable was set as "xterm".
Need 1: read (more or less solved)
I need to read those files again and sometimes copy-paste some small parts.
The trouble is : while one color change here and there is not so much of a problem, their actual density makes the output barely readable. Worse, edited command lines (with cursor jumps and edited words) are completely unreadable.
"Okay" solution
Browse through files using e.g. "less -r". Paging forward in the same terminal setup reproduces the various color and character style.
But many other features come out more or less broken, e.g. search backwards produces jumbled terminal output, often have to pres "Ctrl-L" to clean thing up.
Need 2: editing
My preferred editor is emacs. Some people have had a similar situation when running the shell inside emacs, e.g. Something wrong with Emacs shell.
Here is not the same situation. Examples of differences: here we don't have to run an actual shell, but we need to move cursor freely like in usual editing.
Editing here means easily open such a transcript file in editor and then:
at all times through editing, see character changes (color, attributes) as conveyed by the terminal codes
(optional) some character that are neighbour on the terminal grid but are separated in file by some control characters would have a visual hint about this
ability to insert some text,
delete sections,
use all editor features like search/replace etc.
copy & paste to & from file (including to external programs, which would receive just plain text)
in my wildest dreams, some kind of "flatten" action, like select a sequence with a heavily edited command line and replace it with a simple series of characters as if it was typed in one run. "Visual hints" mentioned above would disappear.
Type Alt-: to evaluate something in the minibuffer. Evaluate (ansi-color-apply-on-region (point-min) (point-max)) and it will convert ansi color codes to be font colors.