Editor's auto-complete loses context and doesn't show the autocomplete popup when we start using backspace after selecting the value from the popup list. Is there any option by which we can get back the popup list programmatically while the user is hitting the backspace? Apparently, the user can use Ctrl + Space to get back the context, similarly, I need it to work programmatically.
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VSCode suggest multiple auto completion options in a list to me. I can navigate the list with the arrow keys, and auto complete using the currently selected item via ENTER. To me, this is counter intuitive, because to navigate with the arrow keys, I have to shift my hand position on the keyboard. I would expect, e.g. TAB to navigate to the next element in the list & hitting ENTER to complete. Is there a shortcut for navigating besides the arrow keys that I am missing?
Is there a way to access the mouse over popup in VSCode via Keyboard and navigate in it?
I often use the mouse over to get the namespace of function or variable ...
So I want to place the cursor on "bar", popup the hover (Show Hover Ctrl+k Ctrl+i), focus it, mark some text (eg. namespace::functioname), copy and close the hover.
namespace foo{
void bar();
}
First problem, the hover doesn't get the focus and I don't know how to focus it. But there is another feature "Show defintion preview hover", which actually gets focused. So far so good. But I still cannot mark or copy text inside the hover via keyboard.
Show hover (not focused):
Show definition preview hover (focused):
But I still cannot mark or copy text inside the hover via keyboard.
That should change with VSCode 1.68 (May 2022):
Lock hovers to more easily mouse over them
Some custom hovers cannot be moused over and others are tricky to mouse over without hiding it because of other things in the way (eg. like a scroll bar).
Holding alt while a hover is active will now "lock" it, giving it a wider border and preventing moving the mouse outside of the hover widget or whatever triggered it from hiding it.
This is primarily an accessibility feature to make hovers play nice with screen magnifiers but it is also useful for copying text from certain hovers.
Note that this feature only applies outside of the editor because editor hovers can always be moused over unless specified otherwise via a setting.
This will be helpful for other views (debug, terminal, ...) where variables with their popup can appear as well.
In the editor, see microsoft/vscode issue 63296
ctrl+K ctrl+I to show the hover and focus it
ctrl+A to select all the hover content
ctrl+C to copy to clipboard
It does indeed work for me (on windows) for the first two steps, however ctrl+C does not copy the text selected with ctrl+A.
It seems like there are two different selections possible in the hover:
ctrl+Aselects everything with a dark blue.
When selecting some text in the hover with the mouse (i.e. press the left mouse button while near/over a char, move mouse, release left mouse button) the selected text is shown in a lighter and brighter blue.
The two selections can coexist.
ctrl+C always copies the text selected with the mouse, or nothing if there's no such selection, no matter whether a ctrl+A selection also has been done.
If there's only a ctrl+A selection, ctrl+C doesn't copy anything.
The two selections can be selected in any order. The order doesn't change the behavior.
Think I found out what you were after.
The shortcut is: Ctrl+K Ctrl+I
See: Trigger advanced hover information with keyboard
please try control + mouse click
it may be help you
Default VS Code Intellisense behaviour
User is presented with a menu of suggestions
User then has to press the Up or Down arrow keys to navigate through the menu
Finally user has to confirm with Enter to insert the suggestion and close the dialog
What I would like instead
Don't need to press Enter
Suggestions are automatically inserted (and cycled through) by pressing Up/Down
Pressing any other keys will close the dialog and resume typing
To be clear, I want to replicate the default behaviour of YouCompleteMe:
When you type, a completion menu pops up. If you like the completions, you use the <Tab> key (by default, can be changed to <Enter> or <Down> arrow or whatever) to select a completion string you want. The very act of "tabbing through" the list to select the item you want inserts the candidate string. When you tab to a different candidate, the editor code is replaced with the new candidate. There is no accept key because by the point where you have the candidate you want selected in the menu the candidate has already been inserted in the editor. There is nothing to "accept". You just keep typing, the candidate has already been inserted.
Is such behaviour possible with Visual Studio Code, either by default or through a plugin?
The editor.tabCompletion option is the closest thing currently available:
By default, tab completion is disabled. Use the editor.tabCompletion setting to enable it. These values exist:
off - (default) Tab completion is disabled.
on - Tab completion is enabled for all suggestions and repeated invocations insert the next best suggestion.
onlySnippets - Tab completion only inserts static snippets which prefix match the current line prefix.
(Emphasis mine)
... except that the first Tab press hides the suggestion window.
I did some digging about editor.tabCompletion, and I found that closing the suggestion window is part of the tab completion's option original design, and that while other users have asked about an option not to close the suggestion window or specifically YouCompleteMe-style behaviour, that this is currently not supported.
"editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "off",
To disable Enter to accept suggestion.
If I search something in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl+Shift+F, the result appears in the SEARCH pane.
If I click or push Enter on an item, it will be opened in the editor window.
How can I jump to the next found item if the editor window is active, without using the mouse?
F4 and Shift-F4 will traverse your search results even if an editor window has focus.
If the search pane has focus the arrow keys will tab down to each found entry below the search widget and the file and location will be opened and highlighted as you go up and down. If the folder is closed, the right arrow will open it. And the left arrow will close it again. It is pretty slick actually.
And Ctrl+Shift+F gives focus back to the search pane and you can scroll through your old results (with the arrow keys or F4) even if another term was selected and populates the search input - as long as you don't hit enter - which would perform the new search.
Is there a way to show/hide various panels in Eclipse?
For example, shift-alt-p opens the Package Explorer panel in my setup, but then to close the panel I have to mouse over and close it manually.
Ideally one could toggle show/hide panels in Eclipse with keyboard shortcuts set via prefs > general > keys
Tough on the wrist to go keyboard-mouse-keyboard-mouse all day.
Perhaps I'm missing some magic combo, please enlighten if you have the Nirvana to spare.
Press Ctrl+F7 you will get below pop up.
Traverse or cycle through the views you want to close by pressing F7 key. After selecting the view to be closed in the above pop up release Ctrl key.
Then the view to be closed will be activated.
Go to Window->Preferences type keys in the search box. Check whether any short cut key is assigned to close part. Refer below picture,
In my case it is assigned to Ctrl+W. Once the view is activated press this short cut key to close the view. If any short cut key is not assigned to close part then you can assign new short-cut key for this.
Click on Binding text box(Refer second picture) and assign your own short cut key.