I want to structure a very long label of a connector (to be more precise: guard of a transition in a state diagram) by inserting line breaks. Line breaks appear when I change the width of the label but I want to control the position of the line breaks.
In an element, e.g. a "state", I can click twice on the name and then I can edit the name and insert line breaks with Ctrl+Enter. But that doesn't work for connectors.
I'm using Enterprise Architect 10
No that is not possible.
If you want to request that feature you can send a feature request to Sparx Systems
It is possible using nonbreaking space. Use nonbreaking space instead of regular space and use regular space instead of line break.
There isn't a shortcut for a nonbreaking space character so copy it from a text editor.
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Is there any way in VSCodium to switch off the line wrapping for a section of a file, in my case a markdown file?
I'm writing as documentation in Markdown and want to include some tables.
Due to the fact that the target system/converter I'm using, which is mark, cannot handle manually wrapped cells, I have to stick to one text row being one table row. So for longer cell content, the line length is quickly exceeded and the table becomes an ugly mess of wrapped lines.
Currently I switch off wrapping completely but for the non-table parts, wrapping would be quite handy.
My idea would be to somehow instruct VSCodium to not wrap lines which start with a pipe (|), which I have at the beginning of each table row.
Is there any way to achieve this?
I'm using visual studio code and run into a weird problem. I'm not sure how I got here - I could have accidently pressed a shortcut unknowingly.
I'm trying to select a phrase, link or anything that crosses multiple lines (whether the lines are true lines or due to word wrap). When I select multiple lines, it doesn't automatically select the text at the start and end between the two points. Rather, it just selects the length of text for that line and repeats it in the subsequent lines. See the image below to understand.
Image of issue
As you can see, I am trying to select the words from "the" to the end of "sub". Instead of selecting all the words between the two, it selects the text "the instru" and selects every line with the same amount of characters/length.
In order to show what I am expecting, I have pasted the text into Notepad and done the same thing.
What I am expecting
As you can see, all the words between "the" and "sub" are selected.
If anyone has any idea about how to fix this, I would be greatly appreciative.
Below is a copy of the text if the images don't display.
Follow the instructions below for a click guide to retire and/or add 'School'.
Best practice if there is a change in 'School' structure would be to 'retire' any existing school setup that is no longer required and add the new sub school information. The reason why we don't just edit existing school names (typically) is due to leaving historical data intact.
Try using ctrl+shift+P and typing "Toggle Column Selection Mode"
I'm a longterm user of Notepad++ and new user of VSCode, where I think the column mode workflow is rather poor. I'm seeking help to reproduce the NPP workflow so far as is possible.
In NPP it goes like this:
hold down AltGR (right hand Alt key)
select column with mouse
copy to clipboard
choose destination top left anchor
paste
Pasting overwrites whatever was there before with the clipped column, which is clear and obvious.
The column always pastes exactly as selected. Whitespace is auto-created before the column if it's pasted into a blank area.
In VSCode I have to
select top or bottom corner of intended column
hold down left hand Alt plus shift
select column with mouse
copy to clipboard
use same technique to choose destination column
paste
I use a mouse in my left hand. The key combination requires a really awkward reach across the keyboard. Attempting to use AltGR as a keybinding shows it to be 'Alt' the same as the key on the left. But it doesn't work as Alt for binding column mode so I can't use the right hand pair.
Unless the destination column is accurately chosen pasting will overwrite with the clipped contents including introduced linebreaks but not respecting the column indentation. For instance clipping a 3 line column and pasting into a 2 line selection produces the most extraordinary mess. Counting lines manually is fine with just two or three but rapidly becomes absurd.
Pasting into a blank area isn't possible.
Pasting into whitespace is governed by indentation rules. I've turned them off, so pasting a column puts the first line in the right place and the rest at the margin. That isn't ever likely to be what's actually wanted.
To my mind the workflow is backwards: in my head it goes 'I want column mode, now I'll choose the column' not 'I'll choose some anchor and then invoke column mode'. Maybe that's just me.
So I'm finding it all very unnatural. Can anyone suggest which if any parts of this can be changed for the better please.
You can use middle-click-drag to do what you want, although it's pretty awful.
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 want to view a word document along with the unicode representation of the special characters.
For example, I want to a word doc containing :
Hi,
How are you ?
As ,
Hi \r\n How are you ?
Is there any way to do this?
Not programatically. Any software or software mode would suffice.
In Word, select the character and press "alt-x".
This appears to be unavailable in Word for Mac version 2016 (according to Microsoft Answers), or in Office 365's version 16.
If you want to see format control characters as visible symbols, which is what your example is about, then there does not seem to be any direct way. But if you click on the “¶” button (in the Start pane, Paragraph group in new versions of Word), Word adds symbols at ends of visible lines to indicate presence of such controls, e.g.
Hi,·¶
How·are·you?·¶
Here “¶” indicates the presence of CR (U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN, “\r”), whereas a symbol resembling “⤶” would indicate LF (U+000A LINE FEED, “\n”), which indicates a forced line break without paragraph break in Word. And “·” indicates a normal space (U+0020 SPACE), whereas “°” would indicate a no-break space (U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE).
For visible characters, the AltX method described by #JasonPlutext works well. You don’t even need to select the character. You can just click between it and the next character, to place the cursor there, and then press AltX.