When I type a single comma or quotation mark in VS Code editor, the editor automatically adds a second one, which is OK, but than it places the cursor outside right after the commas, so if I need to write something between the commas (Which is normally the case...) I need to move the cursor back between the commas.
I would like to change this behavior and place the cursor automatically between commas or quotations.
Does anyone have an idea?
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can anyone show me how editor.autoClosingOvertype works in vscode settings? thank you very much
Overtype mode allows you to type the SAME character as the next character and NOT have that same character added again but act as if you typed the same character on top of that already existing character.
It is used by people who want to keep their hands on the keyboard and simply type the next character to get PAST it. It can be much faster to simply type the next character if you want to get past it (rather than right-arrowing past it) but you don't want two of those characters.
In this case you asked about overtyping and the editor.autoClosingOvertype which applies to quotes or brackets. There are three options for that setting.
never means when you type the quote or closing bracket (when you are right before it) - it is NOT typed over and another quote or closing bracket is simply added where you typed it.
always means always overtype that next closing quote or bracket no matter how it might have been inserted in the first place. Sometimes those quotes/brackets were added automatically by the vscode language server and sometimes by another method (like a snippet).
auto - the default will overtype that next closing quote or bracket only when it was automatically added by the vscode language server and not when it was added by any other means.
In a snake_cased language, I would want to navigate variablewise and not word_wise and also exclude sigils like #, % or / from these stops.
Example:
|$here_she_goes_again; #the pipe marks my cursor position
With one Ctrl+Right, I want to land on the space before the semicolon,
$here_she_goes_again|; #the pipe marks my cursor position
then, with a Ctrl+Left, I want to return to the beginning of the line.
|$here_she_goes_again; #the pipe marks my cursor position
Somebody got this to work?
Put this into your settings.json:
"[javascript]": {
"editor.wordSeparators": "`~!##%^&*()-=+[{]}\|;:'",.<>/?"
}
Use whatever your language identifier is. I deleted the $ from the default separators to get your example to work for javascript. You can remove the other characters you indicated. The underscore was already not in the default for me. Just make sure those characters are not in the language-specific setting shown above.
You can use the extension Select By and the command moveby.regex
You are able to define a regex to search and bind this to Ctrl+Left and another to Ctrl+Right
In the key binding you can limit this to a particular languageID.
I searched everywhere for this, the problem is that the search criteria is very similar to other questions.
The issue I have is that file (script actually) is embedded in another file. So when I open the parent file I can see the script as massive string with several \n and \r\n codes. I need a way to convert these codes to what they should be so that it formats the code correctly then I can read said code and work on it.
Quick snippet:
\n\n\n\n\nlocal scriptingFunctions\n\n\n\n\nlocal measuringCircles = {}\r\nlocal isCurrentlyCheckingCoherency
Should covert to:
local scriptingFunctions
local measuringCircles = {}
local isCurrentlyCheckingCoherency
perform a Regex Find-Replace
Find: (\\r)?\\n
Replace: \n
If you don't need to reconvert from newlines to \n after you're done working on the code, you can accomplish the trick by simply pressing ctrl-f and substituting every occurrence of \n with a new line (you can type enter in the replace box by pressing ctrl-enter or shift-enter).
See an example ctrl-f to do this:
If after you're done working on the code you need to reconvert to \n, you can add an invisible char to the replace string (typing it like ctrl-enter invisibleChar), and after you're done you can re-replace it with \n.
There's plenty of invisible chars, but I'd personally suggest [U+200b] (you can copy it from here); another good one is [U+2800] (⠀), as it renders as a normal whitespace, and thus is noticeable.
A thing to notice is that recent versions of vscode will show a highlight around invisible chars, but you can easily disable it by clicking on Adjust settings and then selecting Exclude from being highlighted.
If you need to reenable highlighting in the future, you'll have to look for "editor.unicodeHighlight.allowedCharacters" in the settings.
I'm trying to use the multi cursor functionality of vscode on a large(ish) file.
the file is too large to select every line individually with ctrl-alt-up or down. In sublime-text I would select everything and push ctrl-shift-l. Is there a similar thing in vscode. I've tried using a regex search for ^, but that gives me an error stating "Expression matches everything".
The command Selection / Add Cursors to Line Ends altshifti will put a cursor on every line in the current selection. (For mac use optshifti)
Tip: You can pull up the keyboard shortcut reference sheet with ctrlk,ctrls (as in, those two keyboard combos in sequence).
(For mac use cmdk,cmds)
Hold Alt+Shift and select the block. Then press End or Right button.
You get selected individual lines.
I use version VSCode 1.5.3 in Windows.
Hold Alt+Shift+i
Hold Home (fn+-> Mac) for right-most or End for left most(fn+<- Mac)
This feature is actually called split selection into lines in many editors.
Sublime Text uses the default keybinding, CTRLSHIFT L
VSCode uses ALTSHIFTI
For Atom you actually need to edit your keymap to something like this
'.platform-win32 .editor, .platform-linux .editor':
'ctrl-shift-L': 'editor:split-selections-into-lines'
Real Lines vs Display Lines
First we have to understand the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines to completely understand the answer of the question.
When Word Wrap is enabled, each line of text that exceeds the width of the window will display as wrapped. As a result, a single line in the file may be represented by multiple lines on the display.
The easiest way to tell the difference between Real Lines and Display Lines is by looking at the line number in the left margin of the text editor. Lines that begin with a number correspond to the real lines, which may span one or more display lines. Each time a line is wrapped to fit inside the window, it begins without a line number.
Cursor At the Beginning of each Display Lines:
Cursor At the Beginning of each Real Lines:
Answer to the Question
Now that we know the difference between Display Lines and Real Lines, we can now properly answer the actual question.
Hold AltShift and select the text block.
Press Home to put cursor on the beginning of every Display Line.
Press End to put cursor on the end of every Display Line.
Press HomeHome (Home twice) to put cursor on the beginning of every Real Line.
Press EndEnd (End twice) to put cursor on the end of every Real Line.
Please understand that AltShiftI put cursor on the end of every Real Line.
Install the extension Sublime Commands.
[Sublime Commands] Adds commands from Sublime Text to VS Code: Transpose, Expand Selection to Line, Split into Lines, Join Lines.
(Don't forget to add the keybinding(s) from the extensions details page to your keybindings.json)
Doesn't VS Code already have a "split into lines" command?
Yes, yes it does. However it differs from the one in Sublime.
In VS Code, when you split into lines your selection gets deselected and a cursor appears at the end of each line that was selected (except for the last line where the cursor appears at the end of the selection).
In Sublime, when you split into lines a cursor appears at the end of each line (with the same exception as in VS Code) and the selection is divided on each line and "given" to the same line.
I have the same problem, i'm used to Alt + drag to do 'box selections' in visual studio but it does'n work in code.
It seems to be impossible for now to do it differently than by selecting every single line.
However plugins should be supported soon so we will likely see a plugin for this if not implemented directly by microsoft.
From visual studio uservoice forums:
We plan to offer plugin support for Visual Studio Code. Thank you for your interests and look for more details in our blog in the coming weeks. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vscode.
For the preview we are looking for exactly this type of feedback. Keep it coming.
Sean McBreen – VS Code Team Member
I just switched from Textmate 2 to Sublime Text 2. I figured that typing single quotes or brackets would automatically generate a second quote or bracket with the cursor in between ("auto-pairing" is what they call it, Textmate2 does this by default) but this isn't happening.
I see that in the preferences->settings-Default there is some JSON configuration that would seem to be doing what I need but this is not the case. I haven't changed any of this default configuration.
Could someone help me add to my preferences->settings-User the configuration I need to enable auto-pairing for all the common tags, i.e., "'{[(?
Right now I'm working on a client's laptop and running Sublime Text 2 portable version from my flash drive. No additional packages installed, default settings. Everything works as expected:
When I type a single or double quote, brackets, square or curly brackets it adds a closing one and puts cursor in the middle.
When I select smth and press any of mentioned above keys it surrounds selection with pair of appropriate quotes or brackets.
Check your Settings>Default, look for this:
// Controls auto pairing of quotes, brackets etc
"auto_match_enabled": true,
It's near line 89 or so.
Not a direct answer to your question..but I have installed a few plugins in ST2 and auto-pairing works fine.
I am not sure which plugin is responsible for it. Let me know if you would like me to share the list of plugins.