I often fix my indentation by tabbing wildly, which led me to learn of the enddrag function.
Of course, this is not a function I expect to use a lot, and I would prefer not to have it pop up when I hit TAB on an end. Is there any way to tell Matlab that I don't want enddrag to appear in my tab completion list?
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I'm using Notepad++ for C coding.
The auto-complete functionality in NP++ seems really naive. No matter where I am in a file, it always tries to give me a list of auto-complete suggestions (most of which are just random words, rather than function or variable names).
It becomes really annoying when I'm trying to write a long multi-line comment, and I keep having to hit escape at the end of lines because the auto-complete pop-up wants to change what I'm typing.
Is there a way to disable auto-complete inside comments?
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Is there a way to disable keyboard interactions with auto-complete? The time it saves by filling in text for me is negligible compared to the time it saves me from having to go and confirm that I'm spelling function or variable names correctly. So, it would be just about as useful if it always made suggestions, but where the arrow keys and enter interacted with the text, rather than the pop-up.
You can go Settings →Preferences → Auto-Completion and from this point you can set whether you have auto-completion on words, functions or both.
At this point, I don't believe there is a way to disable auto-completion within comments.
A workaround is to turn off auto-completion using Ctrl+Enter for your code, and Ctrl+Space for your comments.
Why doesn't Matlab put your variable's names on the top of it's suggestion like Eclipse. It's not smart to put everything in alphabetical order. Scrolling down to the function/variable you are looking for sometimes takes more time than typing it yourself. Besides it should also complete a function by writing the parenthesis and placing the courser in the middle of the parenthesis. Is there any way I can change the preferences to that it would act like Eclipse?
In short: No.
Matlab is not eclipse and it will never be. M-code is not Java code.
If you want to you can use eclipse to edit your m-files, however it will not behave as you describe in your question. This is because m-code is not as strict as for example Java, this is on one side the downside of Matlab as you describe above, however the positive side of this is that it offers flexibility during development.
Using a tab after typing some characters would narrow the possibilities for auto-fill, if you have selected this property in the Preferences-Keyboard window.
Doe anybody know of an eclipse plugin, which can be used to insert short text (in the form of memo) to remember what that line of code does or a block of code does to help me understand the existing code better and i can also refer it back later on.
Just like "Task" can be added on a line of code, although i can use "tasks" for this purpose, but that is not very convenient and intuitive.
If you want to add a short text to "remember what that line of code does or a block of code does to help me understand the existing code better", use comments. That's what they're for, and practically every formal language in the world has them.
If you want the ability to quickly jump to an arbitrary point in the code, using bookmarks is a convenient option - right click the bar immediately left of the text and choose to add a bookmark. You can then easily jump between bookmarks with the "bookmark view", which you can enable from the Window -> Show View menu.
The closest thing I can think of is bookmark support. There is native bookmark support in Eclipse and also several other vendors supply more function.
I'm assuming that there's a very good reason that you don't want to or can't modify the code.
I wrote a plugin that gets user input from Java editor, makes some computation, and writes the results to my view. The way I start the process of aforementioned computation is via context menu and I hate it. I would like it to start on ctrl+space, i.e. content assist. It is faster, more intuitive w.r.t. what the plugin does. Is there a way to do so?
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For example, what should I do to get the current cursor position when user presses ctrl+space? I would use that position info and print it to my view. This is the most simplistic plugin that I basically need.
You could take part in the content assistent calculation of Ctrl-Space by extending javaCompletionProposalComputer. However, if you want to trigger some arbitrary modification operation on the Java file, you are better suited by providing a quick assist instead.
If you are confused by the terms: An example for quick assist is the suggestion "Invert if statement", which you can see when pressing Ctrl-1 with the cursor placed on an "if".
There is a nice feature called "show selected element only" in Eclipse. When it's turned on, clicking on a method in the outline pane will show just this method only in the editor, allowing to focus on this one only, especially useful in that you don't need to worry about scrolling hard and overshooting this method when there are many nested parenthesis inside.
But sometimes I would like to have a glance of more codes around here, so have to turn this off, then back, time and time again, which is quite inconvenient. So I wonder if there is a better mechanism?
I know a built-in feature called "range indicator" (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7049098/how-to-forbid-eclipse-to-highlight-current-method-class-in-the-margin) , but I always tend to overlook that because it's too thin.
One better solution I can imagine is using distinguished background color for currently investigated method body, and when move cursor to other methods, background highlight turn to them accordingly (works like the range indicator, but renders more obviously). In this way, both navigation flexibility and reading assistance are gained.
Is this solution possible?
Take a look at the Editbox plugin.
You might have to do a bit of tweaking to the colors to set it up. Here is a sample screenshot :
Is this what you wanted ?
Yes, with editbox and the following settings may suit your need.