I have an issue with double clicking and highlighting in VS Code (v 1.71.2).
Sometimes the double-click does not select the word double-clicked.
In this screen recording you can see the issue:
Every time I used a double click.
First time the word "Condition" was not selected, but the whole string literal.
Then it was selected but the whole line was highlighted and when copying, only "Condition" would be pasted. That is correct.
The time that the word "Condition" was colored in fuchsia is the correct one but I want only that word to be highlighted instead of the entire string.
Anyone know the setting for this?
This issue was reported and fixed already, see:
Double Clicking On A Word Does Select The Entire String, Not Just The Word · Issue #125052 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub
Try to re-install the version 1.71.2 for release "August 2022 Recovery 2" and see if double-click selection works as expected.
Note that different click-counts have different outcomes:
double-click should select the word (using configured word-separators)
triple-click should select the entire string
quadruple-click should select the entire text
Configure word-separators with property editor.wordSeparators from preferences: Visual Studio Code—Customizing word separators
See also related: Double-click to select text does not always work · Issue #84319 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub.
To have finer control over selecting text you can use keyboard shortcuts like explained in Select all text between quotes in VS Code?.
I concluded that the issue was that the string was highlighted due to the cursor being placed somewhere inside the string.
To disable this, I disabled the Occurrences Highlight ("editor.occurrencesHighlight": false)
By doing so, the editor did not highlight open/closing tags though.
The (partial) solution to this was to install the extension Highlight Matching Tag
The first syntax highlighting is of VS Code and the second one is of Sublime Text. I searched for extensions but I couldn't find anything which could detect SQL commands like CREATE TABLE and highlight them or suggest them as I start typing.
Sublime Text and Atom have this feature by default, but I can't get it to work in VS Code.
I am working with .py files so the syntax highlighting works only for Python commands and the whole text (inside quotes) is treated as string in VS Code.
Is there any fix to get syntax highlighting like Sublime Text / Atom in VS Code when working with SQL syntax in .py files or highlighting commands even if it's inside quotes ("")?
It seems the VS Code doesn't support this feature officially.
Hence, I make an extension called Highlight String Code which can highlight SQL expressions in Python or any other language.
You can easily use it by uppercasing the first keyword of the SQL command and adding a semicolon at the end:
I hope the extension can be helpful.
Multiline regular expression search doesn't work in VS Code version 1.27.2 .
Theoretically aaa(\n|.)*bbb should find string starting from aaa and ending bbb but it doesn't work.
The solution mentioned here Multi-line regular expressions in Visual Studio Code doesn't work as well.
Multiline search is added in v1.29 released in November 2018. See multi-line search.
VS Code now supports multiline search! Same as in the editor, a regex
search executes in multiline mode only if it contains a \n literal.
The Search view shows a hint next to each multiline match, with the
number of additional match lines.
This feature is possible thanks to the work done in the ripgrep tool
to implement multiline search.
Multiline search is coming to the Find Widget with v1.38. See multiline find "pre-release" notes.
Multi Line search in Find Widget
The Find Widget now supports multiple line text search and replace. By
pressing Ctrl+Enter, you can insert new lines into the input box.
.
Odd that it is Ctrl+Enter in the Find Widget but Shift+Enter in the Search Panel (see Deepu's answer below). Shift+Enter has other functionality when the Find Widget is focused.
yes, you could use regex for mutliple line search in VScode.
To find a multi-line text block starting from aaa and ending with the first bbb (lazy qualifier)
aaa(.|\n)+?bbb
To find a multi-line text block starting from aaa and ending with the last bbb. (greedy qualifier)
aaa(.|\n)+bbb
I have been looking for a quick way to do this, and I have come to the following:
start_text.*?(.|[\n])*?end_text
with start_text and end_text being the bounds of your multiline search.
breaking down the regex ".?(.|[\n])?":
".?" will match any characters from your start text to the end of the line. The "?" is there to ensure that if your end_text is on the same line the . wont just keep going to the end of the line regardless (greedy vs lazy matching)
"(.|[\n])" means either a character\whitespace or a new line
"*?" specifies to match 0 or more of the expression in the parentheses without being greedy.
Examples:
<meta.*?(.|[\n])*?/> will match from the beginning of all meta tags to the end of the respective tags
<script.*?(.|[\n])*?</script> will match from the beginning of all script tags to the respective closing tags
Warning:
Using .*?(.|[\n])*? with improperly or partially filled in start_text or end_text might crash VS Code. I suggest either writing the whole expression out (which doesn't cause a problem) or writing the start and end text before pasting in the regex. In any case, when I tried to delete parts of the starting and ending text VS Code froze and forced me to reload the file. That being said, I honestly could not find something that worked better in VS Code.
Without using regex.
Multi-line search is now possible in vs code version 1.30 and above without using regex.
Type Shift+Enter in the search box to insert a newline, and the search box will grow to show your full multiline query. You can also copy and paste a multiline selection from the editor into the search box.
You can find and replace in multiple lines by using this simple regex : StringStart\r\nStringEnd
For example
public string MethodA(int x)
{
var user;
}
public string MethodB(string y)
{
var user;
}
public string MethodC(int x)
{
var user;
}
public string MethodD(float x)
{
var user;
}
If you want to replace the name of user variable with customer along with method parameter name to user but only for the int ones.
Then the regex to find will be : int x)\r\nEnterBlankSpacesHereToReachTheString{\r\nEnterBlankSpacesHereToReachTheStringvar user
and regex to replace will be : int user)\r\nEnterBlankSpacesHereToReachTheString{\r\nEnterBlankSpacesHereToReachTheStringvar customer
See for reference
I had a similar issue, this works better for me:
aaa[.\n\r\t\S\s]*bbb
This includes carriage return (\r), new line (\n), tab (\t), any whitespece (\s) and any non whitespace (\S). There seems to be some redundancy putting "." and "\S" together, but it doesn't work without both in my case.
No regex way: you can copy multiline text and paste it in "Find in files" form:
result of "Replace all":
(.|\n)+? or [\s\S\r]* or [.\n\r\t\S\s]* may be understandable when viewed in isolation, but in an already complex regex expression, they can add that extra layer of complexity that makes the whole thing unmanageable.
On Windows, for files on the local disk, I find the best solution is to switch to using Notepad++. Not only does it handle multi-line out of the box, it also has a pleasant interface for multi-file search and replace, handles macros gracefully, and is quite light-weight. You can switch back to VScode as soon you have finished your regex changes. Personally, I deleted Notepad++ when I found VScode, but reinstalled it later when I found some of what Notepad++ had to offer was missing in VScode. Both are free to use! I'm sure there's an equivalent on the Mac.
If you are willing to search JavaScript, TypeScript or JSON files I can recommend my VScode extension
It allows for formatting agnostic text search and structural code search
You can find it on codeque.co or at VSCode Marketplace
Your query could look like this
aaa$$mbbb
where $$m means optional multiline set of any characters
Make sure to use text mode for this query
CodeQue can make much more than that!
The reason on this behavior is very simple.
Multiple line search isn't implemented yet.
see: Support multi-line search for Global search
I have a problem with dot char in creating my own language support in vs code.
In supporting word completion i have words such as "aaa.bbb" and then when i type "aaa" i see all examples with "aaa.[xxx]", but then when i type dot "aaa." completion clears and when i start typing "b" vs code tries to find all words with "b" instead of "aaa.b".
Tried to disable dot in vs code settings in separators and in triggering chars, but it doesn't work.
about functions to support - i just copy-pasted .php support and modified it.
Already found solution for this.
Just needed to add dot to regex in CompletionItemProvider.
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.