I've recently started using angular-style commit messages:
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
I currently just paste the line above into the terminal and then painstakingly select each section to edit it into something like:
design(password reset form): add field for retina scan
What I'm hoping to figure out is a way to create a snippet that allows me to jump between the parts of the line that I need to change, auto-selecting the placeholder text so I can just type to replace it.
E.g. I'd type an alias, and something like this would show up:
$type($scope): $subject
I hit tab, and $type gets selected, I type my replacement text and hit tab and $scope gets selected, etc.
The closest I've found in the zsh docs is all about autocompletion, and frankly has me pretty baffled.
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So I am having a problem. This is what I can create on one of my laptop:
On another, when I created something that has {TC} in it, the whole field code disappeared.
For the example above, if on the other computer, both are running Office 2010,
I can input the code to create the table of content from:
{TOC \f \h \z \f 1\t "Heading 1,1,Heading 2,2,Heading 3,3,Title,1}
to
{TC}
The moment I type in TC, the whole {} disappears.
Other field codes work just fine, except for {TC}. So my question is how do I get {TC} to show on my other laptop?
Thank you for your time.
Apparently, I found my answer.
When I searched google for my answer, most sites give this as a solution:
For Word 2010, go to File->Options->Advanced
Under Show document contents: Select "Show field code instead of their values"
This is the equivalent of pressing Alt+F9, which DID NOT solve my problem.
Apparently, the solution to get {TC} to show in your document is in:
go to File->Options->Display
and check to always show HIDDEN TEXT.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
Yeah, the disappearing TC code is annoying at first -- seems like it's broken. Other codes work, but why does that disappear, even if entering manually? Word instantly sets TC code to Hidden, even the field code itself.
To temporarily toggle this visible without permanently changing your display to show Hidden Text, you can use the normal Ctrl-Shift-8, which toggles display of spaces, paragraph marks, tabs, and Hidden Text, on and off. This is a good keyboard shortcut to have in your standard back of tricks anyway. It is frequent in Word that you need to toggle paragraph marks on and off, because paragraph formatting is attached to the Paragraph mark, and when they're hidden, it can be tricky to fix various formatting issues.
The original post was a few years ago, but I fear things have gotten worse since then, not better. I am using Word 365 v2201, which should be up to date. The other day, I wasted hours on trying to resolve this issue with TC field codes.
First I tried entering them using Insert > Quick Parts > Field. Word creates what looks like a field code, but it behaves as normal text. Messing around with the various controls to toggle field display and hidden text etc etc, has absolutely no effect. It is basically a faux field. And of course, it is completely ignored when compiling the TOC.
Next, I tried entering it manually, by using Ctrl + F9 to either create a blank field or convert some existing text into a field. Same result as above.
As with the original post, this seems to afflict only the TC field code. Other codes work fine, including TOC. And if I create a TOC field, then edit the code to TC, it immediately loses its properties as a field. If I then put the O back in, it immediately behaves as a field once again. Unlike in the original post, adjusting the settings for field display and/or hidden text, have no impact.
In the end, the only solution was to create the field using Alt + Shift + o to open the Mark Table of Contents Entry dialog box. And finally, this works!
Whenever I am working in a JSP file and I type ${ to start an el (Expression Language) tag, Eclipse will automatically add } (with a space before the closing brace) after the cursor so that I get ${ } instead of ${}.
Is there a code template in Preferences that I can modify to change this behavior, or is it beyond user preference control?
I have checked in Preferences: Web: JSP Files: Editor: Templates, but none of those templates match. I've also looked in several other sections in Preferences but haven't found anything promising.
What #Mero provided (see comments on answer above) might not be an exact answer, but creating a JSP Template probably the closest thing that I've found.
A few notes for anyone that wants to go that route:
Create a new template through menu Window->Preferences, then in the drill down menu navigate to Web->JSP Files->Editor->Templates. Click New.
Name is a shortcut you can type (the same way typing sysout ctrl+space in Java is a shortcut for System.out.println()). I suggest something simple like el. This allows you to type e l ctrl-space instead of $ { ctrl-space to pull it up.
Context tells it when it should appear in intellisense. I suggest creating two of this template where one has a context of JSP Attribute value and the other has a context of All JSP.
Description is just informative. Put whatever you want. I put 'EL Script' myself.
Pattern is where you put what will be inserted. Put $${${cursor}} or $${${script}}, depending on preference. See below for explanation on the differences.
In Eclipse Templates ${} is how you put variables in the template, so to make it actually print ${} you have to escape the $ with a $$ leading to $${}.
The predefined variable ${cursor} defines where the cursor is after intellisense replaces the el, so to have the cursor appear in between the curly braces you want to do this: $${${cursor}}.
Using any variable that is not predefined (in this case, ${script}) will simply put in that variable with a box around it and allow you to type over it and press enter when you're done, allowing you to move to the end of the closing curly brace.
Note: I understand that this is not an actual answer, but rather is a workaround. I'm putting it here simply so that those who are fine with a workaround can know how to go about doing it.
Edit
For those that don't like having to type ctrl-space, a workaround could be to have the template name start with< since on JSP pages, the < opens the intellisense, so for instance, you could have the name be <el or <$.
A workaround but not an answer:
Disable auto-close of EL tags. You type ${expression} and get ${expression}|, rather than typing ${expression and getting ${expression| }. (| denotes the cursor location)
See this answer, from when this same question was asked of Eclipse Kepler: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20258401/1021426
I've been having this problem for some time and have never bothered to fix it since Eclipse has a horrible help system and I can't seem to find the right Google keywords to find what I need.
My problem is that when I refactor a class name, eclipse looks for all potential locations of that name and replaces them.
For instance, if I have a string inside a test case for the "list command" that says something like, "List - list all the users on a team", when I refactor the List.java class to something like UserListCommand.java, the expression inside the string also changes to "UserListCommand - list all the users on a team"
This is SOOO annoying! And like I said, Google is useless when you cannot even think of the right keywords to use.
Has anyone else had this problem and solved it?
Thanks in advance.
Eclipse calls this updating textual occurrences in comments and strings. I sometimes turn this on so javadoc gets updated correctly if I didn't properly link it. But it can be a pain because it sometimes replaces substrings that match.
I've only seen this when renaming classes or interfaces (methods don't seem to do this, at least not for me),
You need to open the Rename Dialog to stop eclipse from updating textual occurrences in comments and strings:
Highlight the type you want to rename, then either:
press Shift+Alt+R
Right click, then go to refactor->rename.. then instead of typing the new name, there should now be a yellow context popup menu under the class name to be changed which says "Enter new name, press Enter to refactor", notice that there is a down arrow to expand the menu. If you press that instead of enter a new name a new drop down menu appears, select Open Rename Dialog...
Once the Rename Dialog is open:
uncheck "update textual occurences in comments and strings (forces preview)" and "Update fully qualified names in non-Java text files (forces preview)"
Hope that helps
We use confluence for documentaion but i find very time consuming to select the code macro; it's a 5 step process. Even typing the macro by hand is not efficient.
In the Stack Overflow editor all we have to do is select the text and press a button or hit ctrlK, and the text is formatted as code.
Is there a way to do this in Confluence?
even typing by hand is also not efficient
I use the code macro extensively and always use the autocomplete feature by typing { and choosing 'Code Macro' from the list (It's enough to type co for the code macro).
This is a very efficient.
Of course a keyboard shortcut would be faster, but there is no shortcut for the code macro. (AFAIK there is no keyboard shortcut for a specific macro at all)
I use Ctrl-Shift-D then wrap the text in {code}.
This also fixes the problem with formatting being stripped from pasted text.
In Confluence 5.x if you edit a page, you can type {cod<enter} and it puts a Code Block box on the page, but when code is pasted into this box it can strip out end of line characters.
Open the Insert Markup window using Ctrl-Shift-D
Paste in your code as plain text This way the formatting is not stripped out.
Add {code} tags.
You can also type three back ticks ``` to create a code block as you would in vanilla Markdown. This creates an empty code block very quickly. I never have with problems with formatting when pasting code in this way.
The one irritating feature of this method is that you can't specify the language as you do in Markdown, you have to select the language from a list.
In a branch of code I have changed all of the code from obj.varname to obj("varname") and when I compare the code I would like to ignore these differences since varname is the same.
I have a regular expression that I think I need but unfortunately can't get the comparison to be ignored using Beyond Compare from Scooter
^obj\("\w*"\)|obj\.\w*$
I am following this tutorial http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_unimportantv3
So my question: is this even possible with beyond compare? If yes, please share a solution including either instructions or post your screenshots.
Beyond Compare 3's Professional edition supports this through its Text Replacements feature. If you've already purchased a Standard edition license you need to revert to trial mode to test it: http://www.scootersoftware.com/suppo...?zz=kb_evalpro
Load your two files in the Text Compare.
Open the Session Settings dialog from the the Session menu, and on the Replacements tab click New to create a new replacement.
In the Text to find edit, use (\w+)\.(\w+)
In the Replace with edit, use $1("$2")
Check the Regular expression checkbox.
The alternative would be to mark any instance of obj.varname and obj("varname") as unimportant. The basic steps would be this:
Load your two files in the Text Compare.
Open the Session Settings dialog from the Session menu, and on the Importance tab click the Edit Grammar... button.
In the next dialog click the New... button below the top listbox.
Change the Element name field to something useful (say, "PropertyAccess").
Change the Category* to List.
In the Text in list* edit, add these two lines:
obj.varname
obj("varname")
Click OK to close the Grammar Item dialog and then click OK again to close the Text Format* grammar item.
Uncheck "PropertyAccess" (or whatever you named it) in the Grammar elements listbox in the Session Settings dialog, then click OK to close it.
This approach isn't as flexible or clean. In the steps above you're matching specific, hardcoded object and variable names, so obj.varname is unimportant but obj.othervar isn't, even if it's aligned against obj("othervar"). If text on both sides is unimportant the difference will be unimportant; if one side is important it will be an important difference. So, with the above steps, obj.varname and obj("varname") will be unimportant everywhere, but it will work correctly since they'll either be matched to other cases that also match those definitions (and thus unimportant) or will be matched to something else that doesn't match that definition, which will be important and will make the difference important.
You can use regular expressions to match more general text categories, but you probably don't want to. For example, if you wanted to match all text that followed that pattern you could use these two lines instead:
\w+\.\w+
\w+\("\w+"\)
And then check the Regular expressions checkbox in the Grammar Item dialog so they're matched that way.
The upside/downside to that is that any text that matches those patterns is then unimportant. abc.newvar vs. def.varname would be considered an unimportant difference because both sides match the unimportant definition. That's good for things like comments or whitespace changes, but probably isn't what you want to do here.