I'm using NetBeans 12.1 on Windows 10 with no plugins or other special setup. When editing any type of text file, pressing the escape key switches to a mode where the cursor keys scroll the viewport instead of moving the cursor. (In many editors, including NetBeans itself, this is typically done by Ctrl-cursor). Pressing escape again leaves that mode and returns to normal.
I often need to press escape to dismiss some window and frequently enter this mode by mistake. I then press the cursor keys to move the cursor but move the viewport instead.
I looked through key bindings to disable the binding, but couldn't find anything. How can I make NetBeans simply ignore the escape key in normal editing mode?
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When I edit code in the middle of statements, it replaces the current code around it. I cannot find a way to replace this with a normal cursor that only inserts data instead of replacing it. Is that functionality possible in Eclipse?
The problem is also identified in your status bar at the bottom:
You are in overwrite mode instead of insert mode.
The “Insert” key toggles between insert and overwrite modes.
It sounds like you hit the "Insert" key .. in most applications this results in a fat (solid rectangle) cursor being displayed, as your screenshot suggests. This indicates that you are in overwrite mode rather than the default insert mode.
Just hit the "insert" key on your keyboard once more... it's usually near the 'delete' (not backspace), scroll lock and 'Print Screen' (often above the cursor keys in a full size keyboard.)
This will switch back to insert mode and turn your cursor into a vertical line rather than a rectangle.
You might have pressed 0 (also used for insert, shortcut INS) key, which is on the right side of your right scroll button. To solve the problem, just press it again or double click on 'overwrite'.
This problem, in my case, wasn't related to the Insert key. It was related to Vrapper being enabled and editing like Vim, without my knowledge.
I just toggled the Vrapper Icon in Eclipse top bar of menus and then pressed the Insert Key and the problem was solved.
Hopefully this answer will help someone in the future.
In my case, it's related to the Toggle Vrapper Icon in the Eclipse.
If you are getting the bold black cursor, then the icon must be enabled. So, click on the Toggle Vrapper Icon to disable. It's located in the Eclipse's Toolbar. Please see the attached image for the clarity.
This issue can happen not only in eclipse but also in any of the text-editor.
On windows systems, windows-10 in my case, this issue arose when the shift and insert key was pressed in tandem unintentionally which takes the user to the overwrite mode.
To get back to insert mode you need to press shift and insert in tandem again.
In the Eclipse IDE(Neon. 3 release 4.6.3) editor, sometimes(especially after I selected vertical region of code being edited) keyboard language change key(Korean to English, vice-versa) doesn't work.
So, I have been rebooting Eclipse to get the key work again. How may I be able to recover the key function without rerunning the Eclipse?
When you change text selection mode to vertical, you might have used the shortcut which is alt+shift+a. As a matter of fact, (left)alt+shift changes input language at the level of Window.
So, you have to use "(left)alt+shift"(without a) to reset keyboard input language back to your home language(not English). That way you can use the language key on your keyboard to toggle input language between home language and English.
I have a problem when using editors (like NetBeans/CodeBlock) in windows 7.
E.g.: If I start to initialize a text using "(Double/single Quotation) and text is starting with a it will give äaaa instead of "aaaa" (this web editor also the same for my PC)
How can I stop this occurrences ?
Sounds like you are using the US-International keyboard layout.
Check the keyboard layout icon in the system tray when you have the misbehaving application focused; you can change the layout from here, or by pressing a key shortcut. (Maybe you're doing that by accident? You can turn the shortcut off, or remove the unwanted layout completely, from Control Panel → Region and Language → Keyboards and Languages → Change keyboards.)
I'm using iTerm2 on my mac to ssh into a Linux box and run emacs in the terminal. On a big monitor, I like to split the window to see multiple buffers side-by-side. I'd like to be able to switch to a particular buffer by clicking the mouse in it (rather than doing C-x o).
What seems to be happening is that if I click the mouse anywhere outside the currently active buffer e.g. in the next buffer, on the mode line etc., the click is being interpreted as which is bound to (tmm-menubar-mouse EVENT).
I have disabled the menubar by doing the following in my .emacs_d/init.el:
(menu-bar-mode -1)
This seems to disable the visible display of the menu bar at the top of the window, but the mouse click behavior I described is still happening.
I think what I need is to have the click interpreted as something other than and then bind that to some function that detects which buffer the click happened in and switch to it. But, I don't know how to do that and the searching I've done hasn't yielded any clear answer. Can anyone help?
Alternatively, I looked into using windmove to enable switching between buffers with SHIFT and the arrow keys. I did (windmove-default-keybindings) but emacs then seems to respond to SHIFT left-arrow by inserting "2C" into the buffer and SHIFT-right-arrow by inserting "2D". If anyone has any tips on making this work too, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks
I ran into this problem a while ago, where clicking on column > 95 was interpreted as <menu-bar> <mouse-1>, which invokes tmm-menubar-mouse. It turned out to be a bug:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6594
There hasn't been a formal release since this bug was fixed, but you can get the patch here:
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/emacs-23/revision/100618
If I recall correctly, you should be able to just drop the modified file into your existing emacs installation and byte-compile it (assuming you're running the 23.3.1, the latest release).
Several times now while programming in Emacs my keyboard has started to write Greek letters into the buffer. I assumed that I'd pressed some key combination but after searching I've yet to figure out what it is and my only solution right now is to restart Emacs. So what am I doing and how do I fix it?
Try to analyse what you've pressed.
M-x list-command-history shows command history
C-h l runs the command view-lossage which displays last 300 input keystrokes
I'm going out on a limb.
You're working on a windows computer that has multiple input languages configured (including greek). It also has the default keyboard shortcut to switch between them enabled (left alt+shift is the default, and if you have multiple inputs set up, it is on by default).
Some emacs shortcuts require an alt-shift combo, and depending on the order you press them, you get or don't get windows intercepting it for the IME switch.
Possible solutions include:
remove the greek IME
disable the windows shortcut to switch IMEs
change said shortcut
I typically want multiple IMEs on my systems, like that I can switch IMEs quickly, and don't want to mess with default shortcuts, so I ended up getting used to always pressing shift then alt when doing alt-shift combos in emacs.