The DocBlockr package for sublime offers the feature "Inside a comment block, hit Alt+Q to wrap the lines to make them fit within your rulers." That's very handy when editing multiline file descriptions. Is there any good way to do that in Visual Studio Code? Manually reformating line breaks and initial asterisks within a JSDoc comment is a pain in the neck.
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I want to set up automatic text replacement shortcuts in Visual Studio Code similar to snippets in SQL Complete or text replacements on iOS. So for example: if I type ssf I want VS Code to replace it with SELECT * FROM. (Or alternatively, offer it as an autocomplete suggestion).
How can I set up automatic text replacement rules in VS Code?
you can use extensions such as the "JavaScript (ES6) code snippets"
I've been transitioning to using VS Code for my python projects after previously working with the full Visual Studio, and some of the key bindings/features I'm used to in Visual Studio I can't find the equivalent for in VS Code. I'm not sure if the bindings are different or if the feature doesn't exist.
One feature in particular that I can't figure out is if it is possible to do multi-line select past line endings. In Visual Studio, using Alt + Click + Drag, lets you create a multi-line cursor or box selection, that can extend past line ends, implicitly adding spaces as needed so that the right-most side of the box stays uniform. In VS Code, if you drag the selection past the end of a line, the selection box won't go past the end of the line, even if other lines in the selection extend past it. In Visual Studio, this feature even goes further, as you could Alt + Click + Drag even in areas with no characters as all, creating a multiline cursor or box selection to the right of all existing line ends.
This isn't an essential feature, but it's very handy in making code easy to read. For example, when assigning several dictionary entries all at once, with varying key lengths. Is it possible to do something like this in VS Code?
Edit: The feature I'm looking for is virtual spaces (thank you Mark for providing the feature name), which seems to be an outstanding feature request in VS Code.
The short answer is no, vscode does not have a box select, past line ends, built-in. VS Code does not have the concept of virtual spaces which would be necessary to make this work yet.
Below is the issue, lots of comments, not that many upvotes. Upvote it.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/5402
I want visual studio code to suggest an autocompletion for an entire line if I start typing the first few characters of any line already in the file, regardless of the content of the existing line. So if this is the content of my file:
this is a line with whitespace
this,is,a,comma,separated,list
And I type this on a new line, I would get a pop-up like any other autocomplete suggestion and I could fill in either of the lines above. How can I do this (and if I can't, is there another editor that has this ability)?
The extension Line Completion does what you want.
You have to configure for which files (language identifiers) it should perform these suggestions. (To prevent to much calculation on large files where you don't use it. See the README page.
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.
I'm seeking a command that when I highlight a paragraph of text in Visual Studio Code will let me remove all line breaks, and correspondingly a command that if I highlight a paragraph without line breaks will insert them at the end of the display width.
It wont be enough to just use Alt-Z because that just makes the display show the line wrapping but doesn't actually insert the line breaks.
For context: I'm using a VS Code latex plugin which is a compiled text editor format. Errors in this system trace back to line numbers so if you don't have line breaks you have to hunt down the error somewhere in a large paragraph. But of course this being a text document there you often have to edit paragraphs and end-of-lines become jagged and hard to read/update.
You can set this behavior searching for "Word Wrap" in the settings. Set to "on" to wrap the words.
Found a solution, maybe it will help someone in the future.: install "rewrap" extension. Select portion of text, and use Alt-q. Seems to work like Emacs' M-q command. (Thx Grant)