I've noticed that sometimes, when there are multiple completion options, I get something like an input field, beneath the command line, where I can type and filter the completions. I'm not sure how I triggered it. Is there a key combination that I can press so that I have it available on demand?
To enter search mode directly, you can press shift-tab. You can also press tab until the highlight is in the pager, and then just start typing: that triggers searching too.
Update March 2020: This changed in fish 3.0 here. There's now two ways to reveal the completion search:
Press ctrl s to toggle the search field while the pager is active
Press shift tab instead of tab to trigger completions with the search field shown immediately
These correspond to pager-toggle-search and complete-and-search key bindings.
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In VS Code, pressing Shift+Command+L creates a cursor for every occurrences strings and you can modify them all at once. Is there a similar shortcut for the JetBrains IDEs such as Intellij IDEA?
Yes there is. You can read more about ways to create multiple cursors and selection ranes on their dedicated help page: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/multicursor.html (I'll use links for the Intellij IDEA help pages, but you the instructions should be similar for all the IDEs in the JetBrains family. To get the help pages for a specific one, visit their general help page, then select an IDE, and then use the search function to search "multicursor").
In particular, see this section named "Select multiple occurrences of a word or a text range" Here's an excerpt when the Shortcuts mode is set to "Windows" (visit that link and switch the shortcut mode to whichever platform you are on)
If you want to select words, set your caret at an occurrence of the desired word. Otherwise, select the desired range with the mouse or with keyboard shortcuts.
If you want to select words, set your caret at an occurrence of the desired word. Otherwise, select the desired range with the mouse or with keyboard shortcuts.
Do one of the following:
Successively press Alt+J to find and select the next occurrence of case-sensitively matching word or text range.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J to select all case-sensitively matching words or text ranges in the document.
To remove selection from the last selected occurrence, press Alt+Shift+J.
After the second or any consecutive selection was added with Alt+J, you can skip it and select the next occurrence with F3. To return the selection to the lastly skipped occurrence, press Shift+F3.
Other functions include:
You can do it with the mouse while holding Alt+Shift+Click the target location to add another caret. You can Alt+Shift+Click one of the existing carets to remove it.
To add carets above or below the current caret using the keyboard, Press Ctrl twice, and then without releasing it, press the up or down arrow key. Or you can enable the column selection mode (press Alt+Shift+Insert) and then press Shift+Up/Shift+Down.
Edit | Find | Select All Occurrences action does it:
I want to be able to select a piece of text in VSCode and hit a button and then have it select the next time that same piece of text appears in the document, then hit it again to select the third etc. What I say select, I want to duplicate the cursor. So I can edit multiple occurrences in one go.
I want to know what the actual command is so I can bind a key to it, not the default keybinding for it.
The command is named "Select all occurrences" and it produces one cursor for each occurrence of the word under cursor (or for each occurrence of the current selection, if a selection exists).
It is, by default, triggered by the keyboard combination Ctrl-Shift-L (Cmd-Shift on macOS) but you can assign a different combination if you need.
Another similar key combination is Ctrl-F2 (Cmd-F2). It is named "Change all occurrences".
Besides adding cursors, both commands also select the current word, if a selection does not exist, so that it can be deleted or replaced easily.
I want to use vscode with out mouse,purely.When I press F1 to run some command or something else that can launch a drop-down suggestion list,it`s inconvenience to move up and down by arrow keys.So,my question is:Is there any way to set a key that can select one of the candidates immediately，like alt 1~9？
Not sure about selecting one of the candidates immediately, but you can rebind the up and down arrow keys to something like alt+j and alt+k that's closer to the home row.
Go to keyboard shortcuts via ctrl+,
Then search up workbench.action.quickOpenSelectNext, double click the entry and type your desired keyboard combination. Repeat for workbench.action.quickOpenSelectPrevious.
I want to implement the following behavior:
I type the beginning of a word, say "pr"
I press TAB
It autocompletes to the first available completion, say "print" - without any popups
I don't move my caret and I press TAB again, and it selects the second completion on "pr" - not on "print", which is already present on my current caret position
Basically, I want to be able to cycle through completions for a symbol with immediate insertion of the completion - without the popup. How would you do that with company-mode?
Try enabling company-tng-mode and removing company-pseudo-tooltip-unless-just-one-frontend from company-frontends, at the same time.
While trying to autocomplete a file (e.g. to open a file with C-x C-f) Emacs-helm shows a list of possible candidates.
If I then press Tab (which I would hope it would help me choose the first/closest match), I get the following in the minibuffer:
It looks like the minibuffer gets confused with escape characters, and it does not choose the file that I actually want to open (the top choice).
Helm requires this conceptual jump from the default Emacs completion, which is not so obvious:
You don't need to press a key to complete. The completion buffer refreshes
with new results after every input.
This is called "incremental" completion.
The normal tab functionality is not needed in "incremental"
completion. So tab was rebound to helm-select-action, which allows you to
choose an alternative action with the selection. But there is only one action
in read-file-name.
The error you're seeing could be clearer though, I've filed this issue on github.
Additionally, note Helm treats each space separated term as a filtering
regular expression. So, pressing space foo will filter
the current list down to those that contain foo in the name.