from other text editors I'm used to adding Markdown links by
selecting the word I want to be linked,
pressing cmd-K on my Mac's / iPad Pro's keyboard, which puts square brackets around the marked word, appends a pair of normal parenthesis () and places the cursor right in beetween those two parenthesis so that I can
just paste the URL I have in my clipboard into the right place by pressing cmd-V.
So, select -> cmd-K -> cmd-V is a nice and short sequence for adding links in a Markdown document and cmd-K has become some kind of pseudo standard for adding links in several writing apps.
However, in VSCode that's not possible. But I'd love to make it possible. Any ideas? cmd-K is (hard-wired?) bound to listen for a next key press.
But it doesn't have to be cmd-K. I can learn another keystroke. But I need to be able to put additional text (square brackets and parenthesis) into the text and move the cursor to the right position. How's that done?
Thanks so much!
This extension Markdown All In One looks like it does what you want in one step.
Paste link on selected text
Just select your link and hit Ctrl+V and it creates the link and inserts the clipboard link.
If for some reason you don't want to use this extension, it would be pretty easy to create a snippet to do what you want.
Adding another answer that doesn't use the extension Markdown All In One I mentioned in the other answer and because a couple of commenters requested a different way. #MarcoLackovic
First Method: keybinding in keybindings.json, then manually paste
{
"key": "alt+w", // use whatever keybinding you wish
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"args": {
"snippet": "[${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}]($0)"
},
"when": "editorHasSelection && editorLangId == markdown "
}
Select the link text and, trigger your keybinding - the cursor will be placed where you want it and paste.
Second Method: use a macro to insert the snippet and paste in one step
You will need a macro extension like multi-command to run multiple commands in series. Then this keybinding:
{
"key": "alt+w",
"command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
"args": {
"sequence": [
{
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"args": {
"snippet": "[${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}]($0)"
}
},
"editor.action.clipboardPasteAction"
]
},
"when": "editorHasSelection && editorLangId == markdown "
}
Demo of second method:
Related
I need to run VSCode through some XML that's at least 90% auto-generated. There are a few things the automatic generation can't determine on its own and needs manual intervention on-- hand-editing where a specific piece of text will be generated on each entry.
What I'm trying to do is to find a way (through extension or through built-in commands) to set up a keybinding that will move the cursor down to the next instance of a specific phrase of my choice (that I wouldn't be manually typing; it would be assigned as part of the keybind) in the current file when I press the binding for it.
For instance, press F17 to go to the next instance of "FIXME" in the current document.
I've been through at least a dozen extensions and haven't found anything that matches my need, and the built-in actions.find doesn't support parameters. actions.findWithSelection requires the text to be selected, so that won't work either.
Any ideas? Someone surely has had the same need for this at some point. I can't see this as a rare need at the very least.
I modified the other extension I mentioned, Find and Transform, to make this really easy. With this keybinding
{
"key": "alt+r",
"command": "findInCurrentFile",
"args": {
"find": "FIXME",
// "replace": "DONE",
"restrictFind": "nextMoveCursor"
}
}
or
{
"key": "alt+r",
"command": "findInCurrentFile",
"args": {
// "find": "FIXME", // no find necessary !!
// "replace": "DONE",
"restrictFind": "nextMoveCursor"
}
},
The first example uses a fixed find and will go to the next FIXME from wherever the cursor is - and it will wrap to the beginning of the file if there are no matches in the rest of the file.
The second example will use the word under the cursor, and thus requires that you start at the word FIXME for example.
First demo (with a find value):
Second demo (with no find, note using during words under cursor to search):
The extension can do a lot more. There are many examples at its link above.
{
"key": "alt+r",
"command": "findInCurrentFile",
"args": {
"find": "FIXME",
// "replace": "DONE",
"restrictFind": "nextSelect"
}
}
The nextSelect option will go to and select the matches in turn so you could modify some of the selections and then move to the next.
I think this extension (that I wrote) is what you are looking for: Jump and select.
Example keybinding (without optional selection of the phrase):
{
"key": "alt+r", // whatever keybinding you wish
"command": "jump-and-select.jumpForward",
"args": {
"text": "FIXME",
// "restrictSearch": "document",
}
},
[If you actually wanted to find all matches and optionally replace them with a pre-defined regex find/replace see Find and Transform.]
You are most probably looking for Move Last Selection To Next Find Match (editor.action.moveSelectionToNextFindMatch), by default bound to ctrl+k ctrl+d. Opposite direction (editor.action.moveSelectionToPreviousFindMatch) has no default binding.
Personally I use Ctrl+Shift+vertical arrows for this, and take my word I use them all the time. keybindings.json snippet:
{
"command": "editor.action.moveSelectionToPreviousFindMatch",
"key": "ctrl+shift+up",
"when": "editorFocus"
},
{
"command": "editor.action.moveSelectionToNextFindMatch",
"key": "ctrl+shift+down",
"when": "editorFocus"
},
Indeed, these command names are quite impossible to find in command palette, when you just want to "jump to next occurrence of word or selection under cursor". It is beyond comprehension how they got such convoluted names.
Congratulations for the first question, BTW!
Suppose following code exists.
sample text
When user double click text, then press { or (, it just wraps the text while keeping it.
sample {text}
sample (text)
But I don't know how to apply this rule to $ in VS Code Settings.
What I expect is
sample $text$
Which setting in VS Code is related to this feature?
Edit> Auto Surround
is the setting in vscode. But it only applies to quotes and brackets like (), {}, <> and [] (and possibly some other language-defined cases). You cannot change that setting to include another character like $ unfortunately.
Here is a keybinding you might try (in keybindings.json):
{
"key": "alt+4", // or whatever keybinding you wish
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"args": {
// "snippet": "\\$$TM_SELECTED_TEXT\\$"
// to have the text still selected after the $'s are inserted, use this
"snippet": "\\$${1:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\\$"
},
"when": "editorTextFocus && editorHasSelection"
},
So that any selected text will be wrapped by a $ when you select it and alt+4 (where the $ is on an English keyboard). If you do that operation a lot it might be worth it.
If you use this line instead in the snippet above:
"snippet": "$1$TM_SELECTED_TEXT$1" // or
"snippet": "$1${2:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT}$1"
then more generically select text to surround, trigger that keybinding and type whichever and how many characters you want to wrap the selection.
I am a huge Sublime Text user, and learned ways to improve my productivity using customizations in Sublime text. But as VScode is becoming popular day by day, wanted to check if there is any way which I can bind the shortcut keys to the custom actions.
For example, I select a word ABC in any file in VSCode and hit CTRL+B, and it places my own defined values around it like it should become
<b>ABC</b>
I had created the following snippet in Sublime Text, which when I wrote in Visual Studio Code - keybindings.json nothing worked.
{
"keys": [
"ctrl+b"
],
"command": "insert_snippet",
"args": {
"contents": "<b>${0:$SELECTION}</b>"
}
}
This will work in your keybindings.json:
{
"key": "ctrl+b",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "resourceExtname == .html", // this is optional
"args": {
"snippet": "<b>${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}</b>"
}
},
The optional when clause is if you want to limit the snippet's operation to .html files.
More general though is to use the emmet command which is built-in: Emmet: Wrap with Abbreviation in the command palette. Select your text, open the command palette, find that command and trigger it - type b or whatever your element is and it will wrap the selected text with the opening and closing elements.
[Note that there is a command workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility already bound to Ctrl-B, but the snippet above version seems to take precedence - meaning you lose the toggleSidebarVisibility keybinding functionality - that may be acceptable to you?]
"snippet with class binding":{
"prefix": "row.${variable}",
"body":[
"<table class=\"row ${same_variable_here}\">",
"\t<tr>",
"\t\t<td>",
"\t\t\t$0",
"\t\t</td>",
"\t</tr>",
"</table>"
]
}
Is it possible(and how if so) to create variables like some_entity.classname
expanding into something like this(in html for example):
<div class="classname"></div>
It looks like you have two questions there. Yes, emmet expansion will automatically turn
div.myClass into <div class="myClass"></div>. See emmet in vscode.
Your other question is about a emmet snippet for a full table expansion. See custom emmet snippets. In your settings.json you will need:
"emmet.extensionsPath": "C:\\Users\\Mark\\.vscode\\extensions"
That should point to a folder that contains a new file that you will create called snippets.json. In that file put:
{
"html": {
"snippets": {
"tableR":
"table.row.$1>tr>td"
}
}
}
Use whatever prefix you want besides "tableR". Then you must reload vscode. Then type your prefix and tab to expand (assuming you have the emmet tab expansion setting in your settings.]
[EDIT]: Based on your comment below, perhaps you are looking for something as simple as a snippet with a keybinding:
{
"key": "ctrl+alt+n",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"args": {
"snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(.*)\\.(.*)/<$1 class=\"$2\"><\\/$1>/}"
}
},
So if you select anyTag.someClass becomes <anyTag class="someClass"></anyTag>
when you use whatever keybinding you have chosen. Emmet is not involved here, this is just a simple keybinding in your keybindings.json (you can limit it to certain languages if you wish). Emmet expansion does not allow you to transform its prefix (the regexp above) the way a plain snippet can grab the selection or current word and transform it.
I can't find any way to surround a selection with something in VS Code.
For example doing something like that : text => "text" just by selecting the word text and typing key "
Another example with the following text :
mon
tue
wed
thu
fri
sat
sun
By selecting all of theses words :
mon|
tue|
wed|
thu|
fri|
sat|
sun|
and typing " I would like to perform something like this :
"mon"
"tue"
"wed"
"thu"
"fri"
"sat"
"sun"
Selecting some text and pressing " already works in VSCode to surround a single item, and works for multi-line selections as well.
NOTE: this is language dependent. The language syntax must define opening and closing braces, e.g. quotes, braces, etc. So this will not work in a "plaintext" file, for example. Change your language mode with CTRL+SHIFT+P and type Change Language Mode ENTER and select something like JavaScript where this is supported.
What you are after though is not really that efficient like that. Your best bet is to use multi-cursors.
Place the cursor at the start of the first line, press CTRL+ALT+DOWN to add another cursor below on the next line. Keep doing that until you have a cursor in front of all your words.
Then just type " then END then " and all your lines are surrounded by quotes.
NB: To check if you have a key bound, and what it is, you can always press CTRL+SHIFT+P and type Add Cursor Below and if there's a keybinding it will show to the right of that text.
In VS Code hold Command + Shift + P
then write:
"> Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)"
In this area that you are allowed to modify, paste this inside the brackets:
{
"key": "ctrl+p",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"args": {
"snippet": "\"${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\""
}
}
** note that in this example the key is set to Ctrl + p, you can change the key to whatever you prefer
Maybe you can try this extension, you can write your own custom wrappers:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yatki.vscode-surround
A simple yet powerful extension to add wrapper templates around your code blocks.
Features
Supports multi selections
Fully customizable
Custom wrapper functions
You can assign shortcuts for each wrapper function separately
Nicely formated
Demo 1: Choosing wrapper function from quick pick menu
Demo 2: Wrapping multi selections
Using Yuri Aps' suggestion, I added the following JSON to keybindings.json. This provides the functionality Ronan Lamour requested for any file type, and without requiring an extension. It works for either single or multiple selections when using either single or double quotes. Coming from Sublime, this is helpful since it reproduces functionality Sublime provides natively.
{
"key": "'",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorHasSelection",
"args": {
"snippet": "'${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}'"
}
},
{
"key": "shift+'",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorHasSelection",
"args": {
"snippet": "\"${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\""
}
},
I was coming from (neo)vim switching to VS Code, and was using Tim Pope's wonderful "vim-surround" plugin for vim before. I found a port of that plugin for VS Code. It's very useful, and incredibly efficient once you learn the shortcuts, in my opinion!
Links:
Original plugin by Tim Pope for vim
Port of plugin to VS Code
If you use vim or vim bindings in VS Code, please enjoy!
Edit: the VSCodeVim plugin includes the surround functionality automatically, so if you have that plugin installed, you don't really need the vscode-surround plugin.
Update 15-02-2022:
VS Code has introduced Surround with snippets for JS/TS natively.
It may not be totally related with the question but it may help someone who landed in this question with the intent of "surround with" in vs code.
This extension also exists if you want custom surround with text.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sifue.surrounding.
I just installed it and got it working perfectly
Select the word you want to surround it with and enter Ctrl + Alt + T. Then just key in whatever key you want to surround it with.
A more generic solution: in keybindings.json:
{
"key": "alt+m",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorHasSelection",
"args": {
"snippet": "$1${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}$1$0"
}
}
Whatever you type after triggering the keybinding will be added to both ends of all selections.
Just tab to the end of the word(s) when you are done and, if you had multiple cursors Esc to remove extra cursors leaving just one.
Since GitHub supports math in Markdown now, I need to wrap my formulas with dollar signs:
$E = mc^2$
When I select a formula and press dollar sign $ on my keyboard I get my formula wrapped automatically. Here is one way to achieve it:
Open Keyboard Shortcuts menu:
Press on Open Keyboards Shortcuts (JSON) button:
In shortucts.json file, which opens, paste this snippet:
{
"key": "shift+4",
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorHasSelection",
"args": {
"snippet": "$${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}$"
}
}