I'm a long-time eclipse user looking to use netbeans now that I've tried netbeans out a bit. I mostly like what I see, except there's a few aesthetics missing. Anyone have ideas on if the following are available in NetBeans?:
Eclipse highlights modified & inserted lines in the left margin / gutter
Eclipse highlights the currently edited function in the left margin / gutter
Eclipse highlights TODO / FIXME comments in the right margin
For example:
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... any ideas on how I can get Netbeans to do this sort if stuff ?
If your project is connected to source control netbeans will show added lines with a green block at the beginning of the line, modified lines with a blue block, and deleted lines with a red arrow. It also marks these in the right margin/gutter. This is based off of compared to last commit, not last save however.
As for the other two I could not find a way to implement them but I may just be missing something
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I've been transitioning to using VS Code for my python projects after previously working with the full Visual Studio, and some of the key bindings/features I'm used to in Visual Studio I can't find the equivalent for in VS Code. I'm not sure if the bindings are different or if the feature doesn't exist.
One feature in particular that I can't figure out is if it is possible to do multi-line select past line endings. In Visual Studio, using Alt + Click + Drag, lets you create a multi-line cursor or box selection, that can extend past line ends, implicitly adding spaces as needed so that the right-most side of the box stays uniform. In VS Code, if you drag the selection past the end of a line, the selection box won't go past the end of the line, even if other lines in the selection extend past it. In Visual Studio, this feature even goes further, as you could Alt + Click + Drag even in areas with no characters as all, creating a multiline cursor or box selection to the right of all existing line ends.
This isn't an essential feature, but it's very handy in making code easy to read. For example, when assigning several dictionary entries all at once, with varying key lengths. Is it possible to do something like this in VS Code?
Edit: The feature I'm looking for is virtual spaces (thank you Mark for providing the feature name), which seems to be an outstanding feature request in VS Code.
The short answer is no, vscode does not have a box select, past line ends, built-in. VS Code does not have the concept of virtual spaces which would be necessary to make this work yet.
Below is the issue, lots of comments, not that many upvotes. Upvote it.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/5402
I edited a document from a client with some highlights then later decided to remove the highlights for comments instead.
For whatever reason, the document highlighted a number of bullet point and numbered list sections which I could not revert when I attempted to select the entire document and change the highlighting to 'No Fill'.
The highlighted bullet point/number lists did not allow me to select them to revert.
Searches on Google seemed to result in a ton of convoluted "[Solved]" responses on their forum which didn't fix the issue for me (or resulted in a TLDR response from my brain...):
Google Search: open office remove highlight bullet lists
[Solved] Yellow highlighting won't go away
[Solved] Bullet highlighting will not go away.
[Solved] Surprise Yellow Highlighting on Bullets & Numbers
Permanently highlighted bullets.
[Solved] Oddities Involving Bullets/Outlines & Font Styles
[Solved] Bullet color
Seriously... what the heck!? How can this be so hard? So I decided this issue needed some serious StackOverflow help...
Version info:
Apache OpenOffice-4.1.4
AOO414m5(Build:9788) - Rev. 1811857
2017-10-11 20:12
So after all that...
I figured it out. But its still crazy how it's not answered very clearly in the resources above... I hope this helps someone not spend as much time on this in the future.
If you double-click the first bullet/number of the list... it appears to select the first word of the first item of the list, BUT you'll see that it also selects the list bullets/numbers with a dark gray highlight.
Now selected, you can remove the highlight from the list.
Selecting all of the document doesn't select the numbered/bulleted lists.
Well, most of this solutions didnt helped me.
But I found a simple way to fix it:
Select Highlight option.
Position to the left of the bullet until the cursor converts to a white arrow.
One click to highlight entire text line. One click again to un-highlight the entire text line (including the bullet).
Select the highlighted area, rather "highlight" the highlighted area and press CTRL+Q, it is a paragraph formatting issue and this should remove all formatting from the selected area.
The answers above didn't work. Try this (mouse-select means left-click and drag the selection of words, aka highlighting but wanted to avoid confusion):
Turn on paragraph marks ¶ in Word
Add a clean paragraph before the highlighted-bullet sentence. (Clean means it's unbulleted, without colour highlight, unformatted)
Mouse-select the entire bulleted sentence containing the highlighted bullet. Make sure the selection also goes left before the highlighted bullet to include the clean paragraph above it i.e. your selection should include the ''¶'' mark of the clean paragraph you created in 2.
Apply white/clear/no-colour highlighting.
It's actually pretty simple though I was having trouble with it myself. Just select all the items of that particular bulleted/numbered list and highlight them. Then select the items again and remove the highlight. Doing that removed the highlights from the bullets too for me.
Super frustrating but here's the fix that's always worked for me (even with .doc or .docx file):
Double click the bulleted/numbered list item so they all highlight
Ctrl + Spacebar (resets character formatting)
Apply any needed formatting (font type, bold, etc.)
This will keep the formatting on the paragraph (indents, header type, etc.) but will just allow you to change the format of the actual text that is highlighted - which is likely all you want.
Hope that works for you!
The highlighted text in the paragraph that you have highlighted past the period id causing this issue. If you want to keep the last sentence highlighted but remove the highlight bullet just remove highlight on the period at the end of the paragraph and the highlighted bullet goes away :)
(If you can) Start from above, add in a new clean bullet point, copy/paste the desired text from the problematic highlighted bullet point, then delete the problematic highlighted bullet point altogether.
Under Options>Editor>Formatting>Java>Comments I have "Wrap Text At Right Margin" enabled, but my comments continue past the red line and don't wrap until they reach the edge of my window. How do I get my comments (and lines of code for that matter) to wrap at the right margin shown by the red line?
This setting only applies to Javadoc. Plus you will have to reformat the source (Alt+Shift+F). Comments in code and code itself are not affected.
In Eclipse, I can format comments by selecting them and pressing Shift + Ctrl + F. For example, when I select a method comment like this:
/**
* This method
* does some stuff.
*/
and press Shift + Ctrl + F, Eclipse automatically wraps it:
/**
* This method does some stuff.
*/
Is there anything comparable to this in IDEA?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm looking for comment formatting that also breaks lines that are too long into multiple lines.
The closest thing that you can get is Edit | Join Lines (Ctrl+Shift+J). You have to select the lines you want to join first.
To wrap long comments enable Settings | Code Style | JavaDoc | Wrap at right margin.
For Javadoc comments, you want to make sure the "Wrap at right margin" setting is checked. See Code Style > JavaDoc, under "Other". However, this setting only seems to take effect when you reformat the whole file, since a reformat of just the Javadoc (i.e., select the Javadoc, then do a Code (menu) > Reformat Code... or CtrlAltL) that exceeds the right margin doesn't force it to wrap. If I reformat the entire file, then it wraps at the margin as expected.
This seems like a bug (though one that doesn't seem to have been reported), since if you have to set the "Ensure right margin is not exceeded" checked, then selecting the Javadoc text and doing a reformat code does indeed wrap the lines. This setting is in Settings > Code Style > Wrapping and Braces. You can also do a search in the Settings dialog for "ensure right margin".
You'll still have to manually join the lines using CtrlShiftJ
This might be worthy of an improvement request to JetBrains.
Existing comment will be reformatted when you do "Reformat Code" (⌥⌘L in Mac).
#kghastie uncovered the key.
Steps:
Set the Code Style > Java > JavaDoc > Wrap at right margin setting.
Select the full lines of the entire JavaDoc comment.
Reformat Code (Ctrl-Alt-L or ⌥⌘L).
Lesser alternative:
Set the Code Style > Java > JavaDoc > Wrap at right margin setting and the Code Style > Java > Wrapping and Braces > Ensure right margin is not exceeded setting.
Select some text within a JavaDoc comment.
Join Lines (Ctrl-Shift-J) followed by reformat Code (Ctrl-Alt-L or ⌥⌘L).
Beware: This will leave all the selected lines joined even where you had paragraph breaks (<p/> or \n\n).
The JetBrains plugin Wrap to Column is made for this:
From the overview:
Wraps text to the specified column width. Similar to the Emacs command 'Fill Paragraph' and Vim's gq (format lines) command. This is a replacement for the native Intellij Fill Paragraph command, which doesn't work quite how I need it to.
This plugin provies two IDE actions:
Wrap Line to Column: Wraps selected text or the current line if no text is selected. This is useful for IdeaVim users who wish to pair the command with motions like vip (select current paragraph).
Wrap Paragraph to Column: Wraps the paragraph (multiple lines) in which the cursor appears. No selection is needed, and will be ignored.
I'm using IntelliJ 14 on a Mac, which has a Fill Paragraph command. Access it via the awesome universal Command-Shift-A action search feature. Works like a charm!
This is a hack, not a really good solution, but if you have a block of code that you want formatted like this and it's in serious need of auto format, because it's going over the 80 line max, or it's just unreadable...
You can just put if ("foo" == "bar") { on top of whatever you want formatted, and then and the} at the bottom of the if statement, to close it, and voila, your code should auto-indent, auto format, etc... Then take it out, highlight all of what you just formatted and press SHIFT+TAB to move it back 4 spaces and remove the dummy if statement
I have a specific project where I need to wrap every code line at 65 characters. I have set up the eclipse Java code formatter properly for this. But what I really want is a vertical line to be drawn in the editor showing where the max line width while I am typing, not just when I run the formmater. I know this feature is available in some capacity because it is displayed in the code formatter property page.
I don't see any option in eclipse to turn this on and I didn't see any plug-ins that do it on Eclipse Plugin Central
Look in Windows / Preferences (at least on Windows - IIRC it moves around for different operating systems) then:
General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Show Print Margin
Tick this and it should show the line.
As a quick way of finding this, use the search filter in the top and filter on "margin".
Notes from the comments - unverified by me, but I have no reason to doubt them:
It has changed somehow in 2016: For details see [here] (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=495490#c2) You have to set it in the formatter: From menu [Window]-->[Preferences], select [Java]-->[Code Style]-->[Formatter], and then edit your formatter profile. In the tab page [Line wrapping], you can find a setting named "Maximum line width". Change this setting, and the print margin in Java source editor will be changed too.
In Eclipse Luna (4.4):
Choose menu Window\Preference . Look at top-left corner, in search box type filter text, type: margin.
In section Apperance color option, Choose Print margin. Choose Show print margin. In text box Print margin column , type 65 as what you want.
#Jon Skeet's answer is incomplete.
(1/2) First, do what he said:
Window --> Preferences --> General --> Editors --> Text Editors --> check the box for Show Print Margin
Ticking this box will show the vertical line.
As a quick way of finding this, use the search filter in the top and filter on "margin".
However, this only shows the line, but under most situations the "Print margin column" value there is flat-out ignored.
To set the column number for where the line should be, do what #John Percival Hackworth mentions here:
(2/2) Go to:
Window --> Preferences --> C/C++ [or whatever language you are using] --> Code Style --> Formatter --> click Edit --> under the Line Wrapping tab set the value you desire for Maximum line width.
Side note:
Use Alt + Shift + Y to toggle soft line wrapping on and off. It will soft wrap (ie: no carriage return) at the end of the screen, however, not at the column you set above.
How do you enforce hard line wrapping at the column you set above (ie: that adds a carriage return)? I don't know yet. If you figure it out let me know. In Sublime Text 3 (a much better editor but with a much worse indexer/function definition finder :() it's Alt + Q.
Update: I think it may be possible with the "CppStyle" plugin, which uses clang-format, by using Ctrl + Shift + F to apply the auto-format, but I don't know the exact instructions to make it work yet.
Related:
Set tab width: Changing editor tab width in eclipse 3.5
After some months with Espressif, but also with other brands plugged-in Eclipse, I found how to enlarge maximum line width. I made a lot of attempts and show how to do for Espressif-IDE:
Right click a project->properties->C/C++ General->Formatter
->Enable Project specific settings->
New->Give your profile a name and base it on a built-in formatter: I choose BSD/Allman->Edit this new profile->within Line Wrapping tab type for example 200 for Maximum line width->Apply changes.
Format source files: you'll have long lines.
Before I did the same manouvres starting from:
Window->Preferences->C/C++->code Style->Formatter... : that never worked.