Eclipse has something like this showing you the outlines of method declarations, imports, variables...
Is there something similar in Visual Studio 2010? I can't seem to find it.
Another thing is the context menu dropdowns.
In Visual Studio, I have to click on the underlined word:
And wait for that little blue underscore to pop up then I have to carefully hover over it like so:
for the drop down menu to pop up. Then I have to click on it to bring up the options.
In Eclipse I can hover over the underlined word and get the options about half a sec later OR hover over it and press F2 immediately to get the options.
Does anyone know if such features are available in VS2010?
For your first question, there is a window called "Class View" that may be similar to what you want. You can access it via CtrlWC.
For your second question, if your cursor is on the identifier that is underlined, you can type either of the following in order to open that same context menu:
Ctrl. (that's a period or dot)
AltShiftF10
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I would like to change the keyboard shortcut for quick fix in Visual Studio 2013, so that it matches the ReSharper equivalent (which I only use on my office machine). How can I do it?
One way to do it is to enter on the menu 'Tools', 'Customize' and click on the 'Keyboard...' button near the 'Close' button.
Inside this option you can search for the commands by name (I couldn't find the Quick Fix here), maybe you want the Edit.FormatDocument one, that makes the indentation for the documents automatically.
If you can't find this option, tell me your quick fix actual keyboard shortcut, so I'll be able to check which function it calls.
I did some research on the R# QuickFix option and maybe what you want is this is the option you want: View.ShowSmartTag.
Look at this doc: Identify and customize keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio
Usually in Visual Studio Code, if I want to delete or modify a certain word from my file, I can highlight one of the words and then continuously press CTRL+D to highlight the rest of that same word in the file. But, in CLion, I am unable to find the equivalent shortcut.
I've Googled and searched here on StackOverflow but no luck. Maybe this shortcut doesn't exist in CLion? Can anyone confirm?
EDIT: It's also known as "Select next occurence" in other JetBrains products.
EDIT: The answer is ALT+J
it is alt+j in all of jetbrains products
So I just want to hit on a couple of options that you have, because I work with both CLion & VSCode as well, and needed the same exact keybinding in CLion.
KEYBINDING FUNCTIONALITY SEMANTICS
Unfortunately, it appears that no one cares about standardizing semantics when it comes to editor functionality/features, and keybindings. It can make moving from one editor to the next difficult, and flat out something many people just would rather not have to do.
Please Note:
_I am no expert on JetBrains IDE's, I am somewhat of an expert with VSCode though. I say this because, IDK how much JetBrains IDE's vary from one to the next, however, from having CLion, IntelliJ, and Access to Ryder I can tell you that in the standard IDE's the keymappings seem near Identical, but in Ryder, the keybindings are totally different.
DEV ENVIRONMENT
BOUND-KEYS (dev env's default)
SEMANTICS
CLion
ALT+J
"Add Selection for Next Occurrence"
Visual Studio Code
CTRL+D
"editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch"
Visual Studio 2022 (IDE)
SHIFT+ALT+.
"Edit.insertNextMatchingCaret"
the The correct semantics for referring to the functionality you seek in CLion is contingent on the environment that its being implemented in. The following demonstrates how to correctly reference it in both JetBrains & Visual Studio Environments:
Add Selection To Next Find Match Ctrl+D editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch
Once you know the semantics of the functionality that you want to customize, you no longer have to resort to using any editors default key mapping. You asked about, CLion, so I will demonstrate, in an image (or screenshot) below, how you can change the keybinding to be anything you want it to be.
To get to the window you see in the photo navigate by following the steps below.
Starting from the text editor, find the word 'FILE' on the 'MENUBAR' located at the very top of your screen.
Click on 'FILE' to drop open the 'FILE MENU'.
Scan through the __FILE MENU'_s ITEMS, until you see the selectable ITEM named 'SETTINGS' (it will have a wrench icon next to it).
4 Select 'SETTINGS' by left-clicking it, and you'll open the 'SETTINGS MENU' open.
Another 'LIST' will appear on the left side. There will be 'BOLD ITEMS' and regular weighted SUB ITEMS. Find the 'BOLD ITEM' that reads 'KEYMAP'.
Select 'KEYMAP'.
The image above shows the view in my IDE of the keymap menu. You can see a red arrow, as well as a green arrow, in the image.
GREEN ARROW
The green arrow shows where you can change the entire Keymap, as you can see in the image, mine is set to VSCode, and as far as I can tell, every keybinding is the same as in VSCode. You do have to download the VSCode keymap plugin though.
RED ARROW
The red arrow shows where the "Bound Keys" are listed. Right click on the keybinding and you'll see a menu that reads
Add Mouse Shortcut
Add Keyboard Shortcut
Add Abbreviation
"it may also have options for removing keybindings and mouse shortcuts, it all depends on how the keybinding you click on is configured"
To set the keybinding select Add Keyboard shortcut, and set it to what ever you want.
Why does VS Code allow only closing editors to the Right, but not to the left?
If one right-clicks an opened document tab in VS Code, then there will be an option to close all the tabs to the right, but not to the left. Why?
As to why this is I'm not exactly sure, Microsoft responded to a feature request posted in 2018 stating that they "try to keep VS Code lean" so perhaps they wanted to cut down on the number of items in that menu and didn't think it was useful enough to warrant having another menu item for this.
However, as of 2022, there are a couple of ways to get around this:
Press F1, search something like "close left" and select "Close Editors to the Left in Group" command.
Install this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ctf0.close-tabs-to-the-left - this adds a menu item which simply executes the command in the first point.
I miss a certain functionality in Eclipse. I would like to know the name of the current function the cursor is currently inside. This is useful when browsing unknown code using the search function, for example.
Any idea how to show it? Maybe a plugin?
I'm using the "Toggle Breadcrumb" option from toolbar:
It shows a nice breadcrumb, ending with current function name.
It's quite handy for me, as Outline becomes cumbersome to use if you have zilions of functions.
It produces the following structure above your Java Editor (truncated at the picture below):
The "Outline" view shows the current function.
It may be necessary to enable the 'Link to Editor' option in the Outline View dropdown menu. This might be off by default for CDT.
I was looking for something similar (Xcode-like bar at the top showing the current function, where you can also go to another function by clicking on it to open a popup list of functions). Here is what I settled on with Eclipse 3.5.1 CDT:
I moved the Outline view to the top, resized it to make it a 1-line horizontal strip (don't make it too narrow), and selected "Link With Editor" in its menu, so that it always shows the current function. However, this doesn't open a popup list like Xcode. For that functionality, I assigned a shortcut to the "Show Outline" command which does open a popup list of all functions.
The Eclipse function 'show outline' will pop up a list of outline objects, and it will highlight the object your cursor is inside in grey. It's typically bound to 'ctrl-o' (the letter 'o', not zero), but you can re-bind it as you see fit. I'm running Eclipse with the CDT plugin and it works pretty well for me.
To enable the breadcrumb invoke Toggle Java Editor Breadcrumb in the toolbar or press Alt+Shift+B in the Java editor.
You can also display the Quick Outline (ctrl+o). This way you see the context quickly without having to have a permanent Outline Window linked to the Editor.
Use the "Link With Editor" option on the outline menu
Press Ctrl+o (cursor is currently inside a function at a particular line).
It highlights the current method, or name of the class if the cursor is outside the method body.
You can click on highlighted method.
It has got inline search feature ...start typing name of the method to navigate to the specified method or method with matching search pattern.
If you press again Ctrl+o to shows the inherited members/methods.
Using outline with "link with editor" option worked also for me, thanks!
Just an addition, you can move outline pane in to the same window group as search, progress etc. saves the space in your perspective instead of keeping it at another group.
I often use the Eclipse feature (Galileo) of suggested error corrections to automatically create code stubs or to refactor things. For example, I would write a method that calls other methods which don't exist yet, then move the mouse over the error message and click on "create method". Or, change this to the class name and choose "add static modifier" from the quick fixes.
I think this is very convenient because it lets me stay in one place in my code and sort of "remotely" wire up what's not currently visible on my screen. What I think is annoying though, is that I have to leave the keyboard, hover my mouse over the error symbol, wait for the tooltip to pop up, and click on the option (doing that, I sometimes move the mouse a little over the edge and the tooltip goes away again - very annoying).
Am I missing a faster method here? I can't seem to find a keyboard shortcut, but then I have overlooked stuff from the huge preference dialog before.
Ctrl+1 : Quick Fix.
(Cmd+1 on Mac)
Just put your cursor on the part you suspect you can perform an action (correction, refactoring, ...) and hit the Quick Fix shortcut. The same popup will be displayed, and you can select the right option with the up and down keys.
That, combined with Ctrl+3 (Quick Access) gives you most of eclipse features at your fingertips ;)
See also:
Eclipse Tip: Shortcut to Quick Fix
My Favorite Eclipse Shortcut: Quick Fix
Eclipse hotkeys: eclipse shortcuts gold mine.
As an additional tip, a specific type of quick fix I use all the time has a dedicated shortcut:
Alt+Shift+J: Add Javadoc comment stub for current method.
After using ctrl+1 like mentioned in the top answer, press ctrl + enter to apply the selected fix all to problems of the same category.
In general, keyboard shortcuts in IDEs (and code tools in general) are coming from a user principle that holds that the more your hands/fingers can remain poised over the keyboard (as in the f-j centered "touch typist" position), the more productive you can become. This is probably why the use of the number keypad is not encouraged, or other keys, less common to the most basic layout keyboard, are not used. Many hold that useful keyboard shortcuts should be easily reachable from this position.
One thing I will say about eclipse keyboard shortcuts is that if you use a popular Windows presentation utility called Zoom-it, you need to turn that off when using eclipse. There are several show-stopper conflicts between the two, such as Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-3.