What menu is called by Alt+Shift+S combination in Eclipse? How to call it from main menu? It is mostly resembles Source menu but has some differences.
Source menu
Source menu looks same but not exactly:
It is Source menu. If you do a right click in java editor you can see key combination for it and if you hover over Source you can see it is the same.
About the visual difference: If it is invoked from the main menu, disabled menu items stay visible (but grayed), because you would be very confused if the vertical position of the same menu item changed all the time (depending on how many other menu items above are disabled).
Context menus on the other hand are invoked at arbitrary places of your screen, so you don't notice a certain menu item offset "jumping" relative to the complete context menu. That's why many menu items are not just disabled in the context menu, but set to invisible.
That's the Source menu, Alt + Uppercase S
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I don't know what I have done but I cannot see the "Open Editors" panel in the Explorer view
I note also that clicking on the three dots (Views and More Actions...) to the right of the word Explorer at the top of the explorer panel the word Folders is greyed out
Can anyone point me to the setting I need to change in order to rectify this situation?
Just in case anyone else has the same problem here is how I resolved my issue. I won't bore you with how I discovered the solution.
Right-click in the activity bar, this will bring up a context menu with the entry for Open Editors listed but not marked with a tick
Activity bar context menu.
Clicking on "Open Editors" in this context menu brings up a new icon in the activity bar that looks like an open book
Open Editor icon
Right-clicking on this new icon reveals another context menu that includes the option to reset the location of the Open Editors panel.
Open Editor context menu
Selecting this option resolves the problem.
How I got into the problem in the first place is still difficult to ascertain. With the activity bar in its default configuration I must have dragged the "Open Editors" header to somewhere on the activity bar, that clearly removes it from the Explorer side bar but how I inadvertently right clicked this new icon and selected "Hide 'Open Editors'" without realising remains a mystery.
Go to view and click on Open View and the on Open Editors.
3 dots on extreme right hand side has an option - keep editors open --> set it to default view. Once done the open editor will be be visible on the left.
This is considering you have default vs code layout...
I am currently using version: 1.68.1
In VS Code, go to Settings and in the search box, type explorer.openEditors.visible. Set the value in the dialogue box to any number greater than 0 and you are good to go. Refer to the image below.
I find the explorer tree to be unintuitive. Opening a file on single click was annoying, so I set "workbench.list.openMode": "doubleClick". Now I have to click twice on the expand/collapse triangle just to make the tree expand or collapse (in code outline view, gitlens, and other views).
Shouldn't single click on the twisty open/close?
Why can't you type letters to navigate in lists/trees?
Why is the item you clicked on one color, but the item you navigate to with arrow keys another?
What is the point of the other highlight, as the context menu only seems to apply to the highlight with less contrast?
How do I open the selected item with the keyboard?
What is happening in the explorer when you press ESC? Seems like focus moves to the tree itself, but what does that achieve?
Shouldn't single click on the twisty open/close?
I've seen an open issue about that
Why can't you type letters to navigate in lists/trees?
That issue exists too
Why is the item you clicked on one color, but the item you navigate to with arrow keys another?
IDK. Usually, after you click that file is open in editor. (Selected list item - active editor(easier to spot?); Focused list item - where the focus is)
What is the point of the other highlight, as the context menu only seems to apply to the highlight with less contrast?
You can change the colors if you want to.
How do I open the selected item with the keyboard?
Enter? I assigned arrow right→ though.
What is happening in the explorer when you press ESC? Seems like focus moves to the tree itself, but what does that achieve?
What did you expect it to do?
I accidentally removed search icon in Activity Bar and don't know how to add it there again. If I click on Activity Bar, I don't see this option any more.
Update: v1.44 you can now simply drag many of the views, including "Search" from the sidebar to the panel and back. See https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_44#_increased-view-placement-flexibility and https://stackoverflow.com/a/55981465/836330
Update: v1.42 added a context menu option
Move to Panel/Move to Sidebar
to certain typically sidebar views like Search, Outline and custom views. So you wouldn't have to use a setting to move the Search view back to the sidebar. Here is a demo:
Also notice that you no longer right-click in the empty space below the search inputs in the sidebar but on/near the Search header itself to bring up the toggle option.
As part of the v1.42 release the search.location setting mentioned below will be deprecated.
Your setting should migrate automatically, but you will need to use
the new generalized method to move the Search view going forward. You
do not need to enable the experimental preview setting above in order
to move the Search view with the new context menu entry.
So I don't think there is a setting anymore, you just right-click on the header text "Search" whether it is in the Panel or active in the Sidebar to move it. See the demo below.
Right-click on the "Search" header if you have it in the sidebar to "Move to Panel".
If Search is in the panel, right-click on the word Search to "Move to Sidebar".
To enable moving the Output view at this point, you need to enable workbench.view.experimental.allowMovingToNewContainer.
There is a new unbound command workbench.view.search.moveView which you can use to toggle the search position between the panel and sidebar. But note that in my testing it only works a couple of times because it focuses the panel when you move search to the sidebar - I'll file a bug.
Previous Answer::
You may have modified the setting:
"search.location": "sidebar",
which is the default to the alternative
"search.location": "panel",
which would put the search widget into the terminal panel as another tab.
As of vscode v1.35 or so, you can now right-click in the empty space below the search view (i.e., in the sidebar under the open search inputs) and you will get an option to Toggle Search View Position.
This context menu switch of the search view is persistent. It will automatically add this setting to your settings.json:
"search.location": "panel",
The only way at present (but see edit just below) to move the icon back to the activity bar (and thus the search across files functionality to the sidebar) is to change that setting to the sidebar option. Or look for this setting in the settings editor:
Search: Location
Controls whether the search will be shown as a view
in the sidebar or as a panel in the panel area for more horizontal
space.
EDIT: More recently, vscode added the abilty to right-click in the search area when it is in the panel to toggle it back to the sidebar.
In windows
file--> preferences-->settings
In mac
preferences -> settings
vs-code version 1.30.2
Step 1: Click on Edit from Navbar
Step 2: Find in Files
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You can easily search for anything in the side paanel
or else if you want anything to search inside files then
Step 1: Click "Ctrl+F"
I'm trying to hide Eclipse menu bar to save some screen real estate. I found I can do this using perspectives but that would permanently take out the menu from that perspective. The behavior that I want to get is something along of auto-hide, so that the menu remains hidden until I hit ALT+F for example or any other ALT key combo.
Is there's a setting or a plugin that can do this?
Thanks!
This is just a work around. Create two perspectives.
First one named - With Menu.
Second one named - Without Menu.
In the "Without Menu" perspective remove all menu items and Save.
To create the effect of hiding and showing, switch between perspectives by using
Ctrl+F8.
Theres a fast view option- just right click the tab and select Fast View. It'll bring the entire window down to the eclipse taskbar. You can recover the window by just clicking on it's icon.
Source: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=56119
Have a look here Is there a Macro Recorder for Eclipse? You could set up the macro so respond to ALT+F possibly.
If you're as lazy as I am, you don't want to go moving your hand every time you need a menu in Eclipse. Is there any way to navigate menus in Eclipse without moving your hands to the mouse or the arrow keys?
I've searched for key bindings for menu navigation (replacing Up/Down/Left/Right), but came up empty.
UPDATE
To clarify, I am familiar with a lot of the features mentioned in the answers, such as "Show Key Assist", and "Quick Access". I've found that the only time I'm ever really moving my hands is to navigate through a list of items, such as the Package Explorer or the Open Resource dialog. I haven't found any alternatives to the arrow keys for these actions.
I like to bind "Show Key Assist", and "Quick Access" to convenient keys, in order to get a list of all menus/commands/views accessible from the context I am currently in.
This isn't really a replacement from ALT+arrows, but it can help reduce the menu exploration you need to do in order to find the right action to launch.
As #VonC mentioned, I'd use Quick Access (CTRL+3) for most commands that don't already have a keyboard shortcut.
You can also use mnemonics to access most menu items. i.e. ALT+F P for print, or ALT+R N for the Run Configurations dialog.
F10 will open the left most menu on most OSes. CTRL+F10 will open the view menu from within a view, and the ruler menu in a text editor. SHIFT+F10 will open a context menu in almost all locations.
PW
If you want to navigate between views of eclipse, you can use Ctrl+F7 & then up/down arrow keys to select the one. For 'Open Resource Dialog', you can use Ctrl+Shift+R.