When selecting a portion of text in Aptana Studio (I assume the same is true for Eclipse in general) like so:
And then typing a single quotation mark ("), it will result in this:
But what I want is this:
Or even better:
Please note, I really like automatic closing of parenthesis/quotation marks/braces/..., I just want to affect the behavior when text is selected.
In Aptana Studio 3:
Window > Preferences > Aptana Studio > Editors > Disable "Wrap selected text with matching characters"
This helped me find the solution: https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/questions/1122-disable-automatically-closing-quotes
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I tried to get Eclipse to convert all of the tabs in my project to spaces like this:
Java Editor:
Click Window » Preferences
Expand Java » Code Style
Click Formatter
Click the Edit button
Click the Indentation tab
Under General Settings, set Tab policy to: Spaces only
Click OK ad nauseum to apply the changes.
And now my code is formatted without any indentations within if and for blocks, like this:
private void addAppointment(Resource resource) {
if (resource != null) {
Appt appt1 = new Appt();
appt1.setTime(new Date());
resource.setAppointment(appt1);
}
}
I really don't want to have to manually fix this in the hundreds of files in the project, how can I format to indent within if and for blocks in the whole project?
I should also say that the "Statements within blocks" checkbox in the active Formatter profile is checked. The preview it shows has a for block with an indented body, so I have no idea why that isn't being applied to my project.
#gnac provides some good options, in addition to:
Similarly you can use ctrl+shift+f (Source->Format) on each class to format it on the fly
You can select the project(s) and do Source menu -> Format to format everything in that project in one go. (No keyboard shortcut for it AFAIK.)
So once you set your formatting options you have a couple of options. You can set the preferences to format your files when saving.
Preferences->Java->Editor->Save Actions
However, if you have a lot of files this will be a pain as well. Similarly you can use ctrl+shift+f (Source->Format) on each class to format it on the fly, again having to do it on each file individually.
Inside Eclipse you can use Search->Find, enter "\t" in the text box and select the "Regular Expression" check box and then click the "Replace..." button. When the search is done, it will ask you what to replace it with. Enter 4 spaces into the "With" text field. Click Preview to see what it will do, or OK to make the changes.
I would use a find and sed to find all of the java files in a directory and replace the tabs, although this is outside of eclipse
find -iname ".java" -exec sed -i.orig 's/\t/ /g' {} +
If you're not on Linux you could use cygwin to do the same on Windows.
I just started to use NetBeans, and am trying to work out how to:
Make it so that trailing whitespace is removed on save. I know that you can invoke it manually, but it’s annoying if you forget. Can it be done automatically on save? I want this done because it keeps the code neat, because it’s really annoying when you’re moving through code and the text cursor goes all over the place because of trailing whitespace you don’t see, and because trailing whitespace has unintended effects on HTML layouts and other stuff.
Make it so that tabs are automatically made into 4 spaces while you’re typing rather than converting on save, or, worse, only when manually invoked.
For the first question, NetBeans 7.0+ has now a built-in solution. You can find it in:
On NetBeans 7:
Tools > Options > Editor > General > When saving files > Remove Trailing Whitespace: Never / Always / For Modified Lines Only
On NetBeans 8 / 9:
Tools > Options > Editor > On Save > Remove Trailing Whitespace From: None / All Lines / Modified Lines Only
[Original] For your first question, how to set NetBeans to remove trailing whitespace, the answer is that there is no setting (at the moment) to control that. It happens automatically, but not to every line. Whitespace is only removed from the lines you edit (or from the entire file if invoked manually). See Petr Pisl's blog entry titled "Removing trailing spaces" for a more complete explaination. (Note that even though he is blogging about NetBeans' PHP features, this particular feature applies to the basic editor shared by all NetBeans supported languages.)
[Update] This feature has been made available as of version 7.0, as pointed out by others in comments and answers below.
For your second question, set the editor to automatically make tabs into spaces as you type, you can find that setting in the Editor Formatting options:
Click on the Tools menu, and choose Options
Click on Editor in the top row of icons
Click on the Formatting tab
In the Language field, ensure that All Languages is selected
In the Category field, ensure that Tabs And Indents is selected
Check the box for Expand Tabs to Spaces
For each additional language that is available in the Language field, check that either Override Global Options is not checked, or that Expand Tabs to Spaces is also checked for that language.
Click OK
That will make sure that when you hit the tab key the specified number of spaces is inserted rather than a tab character. As above with whitespace removal, any existing tabs in the file are left as-is unless you invoke the manual command to change the entire file. (Moreover, even if you edit a line with tabs on it--leaving the tabs in place--the editor will not convert them to spaces. Only new instances of hitting the TAB key are controlled by this option.)
Tools > Options > Editor > On Save > Remove Trailing Whitespace From: None / All Lines / Modified Lines Only
This is as of Netbeans 7.3, according to Webmut.
For netbeans 7.4+
Windows - Tools > Options > Editor > On Save > Remove Trailing Whitespace From: None / All Lines / Modified Lines Only
Mac - Netbeans > preferences > Options > Editor > On Save > Remove Trailing Whitespace From: None / All Lines / Modified Lines Only
Also you can set this as language specific.
You can also set reformat while saving.
if you want to remove all trailing spaces in the file manually ONLY ONCE, you can invoke action 'Remove Trailing Spaces' from Source menu manually.
Source -> Remove Trailing Spaces
In Eclipse Standard Installation the editor marks all occurrences of a variable if you click on it with a cursor.
e.g. Setting the cursor somewhere on the 'foo' Variables it highlights all other foo's too.
public void printString(String foo){
System.out.println(foo); }
Any ideas where to switch this behavior on again or why the feature doesn't work ?
I know the workaround is 'References->Workspace' but the auto highlighting is much more convenient.
You are asking about the "Toggle Mark Occurrences" the short cut for this is Alt + Shift + O
You can also enable it from
Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Mark Occurrences
Eclipse is a great editor, and among it's many wonderful features one of my favorites is the Mark Occurrences feature. However, I recently installed the Aptana plug-in, and in trying to configure it I somehow managed to break Mark Occurrences in my Eclipse installation.
The feature still works somewhat, but instead of highlighting all occurrences of a given object, it now only highlights the occurrence where it is first created. In other words, in:
1. Dog dog = new Dog();
2. dog.bark();
3. dog.bark();
Only the "dog" in line 1 would be highlighted, not the "dog" in 2 or 3.
However, before I know I had things configured such that all three "dog" references would be highlighted by Eclipse. Does anyone know what configuration option I changed to "break" the marking of occurrences like this?
If the option mentioned by laurie is checked and you're wondering why it isn't working, you might have hit Alt-Shift-O sometime:
Cannot highlight all occurrences of a selected word in Eclipse
Note, that "Organize Imports" has Ctrl-Shift-O...
Check the following preference setting:
Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations
In here compare the settings for Occurrences and Write Occurrences.
You probably don't have the Text as higlighted option checked
There is another way to toggle the Mark Occurrences feature (apart from Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Mark Occurrences)
Simply click the "Toggle Mark Occurrences" button from the toolbar. This can be seen in the image below. If you don't see the item in your bar you can turn on by selecting Window > Perspective > Customize Perspective... > Editor Presentation > Toggle Mark Occurrences
You can use a keyboard shortcut to toggle it, also:
On Windows: Alt + Shift + O
On OS X: Option + Command + O
Hope that helps
Preference > Java > Editor > Mark Ocurrences > check: Mark Ocurrences of the selected element in the current file.
and eclipse won't highlight occurences if your project contains errors
check the Problems view to be sure you project is clean
Go
Java> Editor > Mark Occurrences
Uncheck "Keep Marks when the section changes" then click Ok
Restart Eclipse.
This work for me.
Double click on the class or the package in it disappears. Have no fear.
( I also activated this feature by mistake while pressing selecting a word)
In CFEclipse, I do a lot of double-clicking to select text. The standard behavior is to select all text within the nearest word boundaries. This is problematic when editing code where the original editor didn't use camel-case; for example, they wrote "myObject" as "my_object".
Is there a way to change the double-click selection behavior to include '_' as a valid word character?
In the latest version of CFEclipse, there is now the option to define what characters are considered word boundaries when double-clicking, and also the option to use different characters when using alt or shift keys.
In Preferences, goto CFEclipse > Editor > Text Selection to update this:
(source: bpsite.net)
CFEclipse does not recognize either the underscore or a period as a character for selecting text with a double-click. There is no way that I know of other than rolling your sleeves up and hacking the editor code to change it. I doubt that this will be changed any time soon with the impending release of Bolt from Adobe.
On eclipse 3.4.1 Ganymede, it seems to select the nearest boundaries including the '_' (at least in the java file I am using)
What eclipse version are you using ?
This blog even reports that eclipse3.3 does select word as you are expecting it...
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