In vscode or vim it is possible to fold/unfold blocks with Ctrl+Shift+[. However in the swiss french keyboard the [ symbol is done with AltGr+è, so Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+è doesn't work.
Any hint?
You can use ctrl+shift+' and ctrl+shift+^, i.e., the two keys left of backspace.
(Hat tip to http://www.kbdedit.com/, whose author told me.)
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vscode after update (November 2021 (version 1.63)) Unicode highlighting#
vscode highlight same persian words, I want add persian characters to allowed characters. but how?
Thank you if you can help me
"The character U+0647 "ه" could be confused with the character U+006f "o", which is more common in source code."
In the Editor > Unicode Highlight: Allowed Characters setting if you click on
Add Item you can paste or type your character in - but it appears you have to do it one by one which is sub-optimal. I tried inputting some unicode ranges but nothing worked.
I tested it for your ه character and it works. Once you paste it in, the value field will populate with true which is what you want.
The Ambiguous Characters setting shouldn't flag characters "common in the current user locale." Is ه such a character?
I don't see a Persian Language Pack in the Marketplace so perhaps there is no way to change your vscode language to Persian.
More on locales here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/locales
You can also uncheck Settings > Editor > Unicode Highlight: Ambiguous Characters
It's so much easier than adding characters every single time.
I'm using Lean in VS Code under macOS Catalina with a U.S. keyboard. How do I enter symbols such as for the implication arrow, union, intersection, subset?
Is there some built-in or add-on palette to facilitate this? Or do I have to use Option key combinations and, if so, where do I find the appropriate codes?
From the Lean reference:
You can enter Unicode characters with a backslash. For example, \a inserts an α.
Here are some ways to get the symbol codes:
Guess. Many of the symbols have intuitive names, like \union or \cup for ⋃.
Use the tooltip. If you already have the symbol, then hovering over it will reveal the code.
If you don't have the symbol, right click > Go to definition on a related symbol will often land you close by.
If all else fails, check translations.json. You can usually get away with guessing, though.
⟶ System preferences
⟶ Keyboard
⟶ Input Sources Tab
⟶ + at bottom left
⟶ add and select Unicode Hex Input
from panel on right
⟶ enter unicode characters via alt+[code]
⟶ example, to enter the sign for union, hold down Alt and press 222a
To find additional codes, you can simply Google search Unicode Union for example, and it's almost always the first hit
https://www.google.com/search?q=unicode+Union&oq=unicode+Union&aqs=chrome..69i57.3027j0j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
I have searched all over the Internet for an answer. I have achieved this once before, but I can't remember how I did this...
I have a long text file with alot of encoded characters, for example
\u0119,\u015b\\u0107
How do I change characters like \u0119 to ę, etc?
This question is not off-topic. In past I also use notepad++ for programing. Today i use Atom. You can find a lot questions about notepad++ in stack overflow - for instance: Removing duplicate rows in Notepad++ or this Convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++ (and many more). So please do not give minus points to this question.
Answer: I assume that when you go to menu>Encoding you will see 'Encde in UTF-8.'
I use this site to create part of my answer: https://superuser.com/questions/576431/notepad-inserting-special-unicode-characters-in-utf-8
If you see character codes like \u0119,\u015b\u0107 in your file this probably mean that they are just on encoded - and their codes are put expliicty as raw text.
So to change this codes into UTF-8 characters, go to
menu>run>run> type: charmap> click run
the windows charmap will show up, so check ''advanced view' an there put you character code (without \u prefix - so for instance only 0119) in filed 'go to Unicode'. Then click on 'select' and 'copy' and close window
Then go to menu>search>replace and in filed 'replece with' past you character, and inf filed 'find what' put its code (with prefix, for instance \u0119). And click 'Replace All'
Do steps 1-3 for each character code (you can check thad your done when you click menu>find> and type '\u' in "find what". If you not find any code then you job is end.
I am new to notepad++ and like it very much, since I can customize how my text documents look more easily than with wordpad. However, I would like to know if it’s possible to enter accented characters like in wordpad (I thought it was a windows thing, but perhaps it isn’t). In wordpad, I can type, for instance, ctrl-’ then i to get an accented í character. Similarly, I can type ctrl-shift-~ then n to get the accented ñ character. It makes it much easier to enter accented characters than copying and pasting from the character map application, or trying to remember code points. When I tried this method in notepad++ I just got the plain character without the accents. I should also mention that when I open documents with such accented characters already present they appear just as expected. Is there a way to enter accented characters like this in notepad++ using only the keyboard? I am using the latest notepad++ under Windows 7.
In Notepad++ you can go to “Edit” then select “Character Panel” near the bottom of the drop down menu. It will show you the ASCII set available which includes most accented characters. You find the character you want and there will be a number for it, to easily use that, press and hold your ALT key, then, on your keypad on the right side of your keyboard type zero followed by the number for that character. So for something like “ñ” for example, the code for it is 241, so you would press ALT and then type 0241 on the keypad while holding down ALT and you will get the character you need. That works in most Windows programs, even in here.
This only works for ASCII characters in the range of 0 to 255. I don't know of a method other than copying and pasting from the “Character Map” app available in Windows for Unicode. Though I did test Wordpad with the Decimal number of the Hex value you see for a Unicode character above 255 and it will work with the ALT+#### in there, and probably other places, but it doesn't work in Notepad or Notepad++ for some strange reason, sadly. Two I use a lot and have memorized are ALT+0147 and ALT+0148 for the quotation marks “like these”, so once you use the numbers enough you tend to get used to them, or you can jot down the ones you use the most.
For anyone searching for a solution and coming across this page, try this (Windows): install and use the US International keyboard instead of the plain US keyboard. Search for "windows keyboard us international install" or something similar. I liked the techlanguage.com write-up on it and the teckangaroo.com step by step on how to install. Hope this helps someone in future looking around as I was earlier today for how to easily meet this need.
You can make your own keyboard layout to enter arbitrary characters anywhere in Windows, using MSKLC. Here's one I made earlier.
I think it is configured in the input method. With input method containing the characters you mentioned, you can press key combinations to get special letters.
You can add a keyboard layout preset in Windows. Under "Language and Regions" - "Language" - "Language settings" - "Input method" settings in Control Panel, you can add all what you want. Like this:
Switch keyboard layout with Alt + Shift.
I cannot figure out how to do this for the life of me apart from doing a find-replace on 4 spaces and converting to tabs (Version 0.10.2). I can't think of an editor/IDE that doesn't have a specific feature to do this. Does VSCode?
Since fix of: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1228 the editor supports it out of the box. Simply go for:
F1,
indentationToSpaces or indentationToTabs (depending on your need)
Enter.
Another way to do it is click the current indentation (Tab/Spaces:n) on the footer which will open your indentation options where you can select what you want to do.
If you are trying to convert non-leading tabs to spaces (or vice versa) you can use a regex search and replace.
Press CTRL + H
Click the .* button to search using regular expressions.
To search for tabs enter [\t] in Find box.
Enter spaces in Replace box and perform your replace.
Search box in regex mode:
To round out these answers, I will add my take for converting each tab to n spaces.
Highlight a tab character
Use CTRL + F2 select all occurrences
Press SPACE n times
This is the easiest way to do this (going beyond only converting leading tabs).
Note that this does not convert consecutive tabs to k spaces. It converts each tab. For consecutive tabs please see my comment on jrupe's answer. You will need VS Code find and replace with regular expressions to accomplish that.
Select Replace: CTRL-H
Enter Horizontal Tab in Find box: hold ATL and type 009 on the keypad.
Enter a space(or more spaces) into the Replace box: press space bar
Press Enter to begin replacing Tabs with Space(s).
Press F1 and then type into textbox convert indentation to spaces or whatever you want ones
On Visual Studio, Ctrl+K+F did the trick for me.
Fast forward to 2020/2021, there are some extensions that will give us that conversion. I have just needed that functionality (hence I found this article), and searching for extensions I found:
geocode.spacecadet - providing both TAB->SPC and SPC->TAB, but not updated since 2017, with 1.3k installs, 3.5 review
takumii.tabspace - TAB->SPC, from 2020, 1.5k installs, no reviews
pygc.spacetab - SPC->TAB, from... wait, literally yesterday! (or today depending on your TZ), 2 installs, no reviews