I mostly use SlickEdit and eclipse while working on embedded systems. Once in a while I need to use Visual Studio, and I terribly miss this feature that is known by different names in different editors. Basically you get a small window of 'outline style' code summary on the side (showing just the function names and optionally the static and globals at the top). You click an item on this little window and your cursor in the main editor window magically jumps to that item location. Here is how it looks like in SlickEdit:
http://sites.google.com/site/fractalspace/tmp1
Anyone knows what I am talking about ?
Any 'pointers' will be much appreciated :)
Thanks.
Take a look at the DPack addin
and more specifically at the Code Browser feature
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I have recently switched from Sublime Text to Visual studio code, but there is something that i truly miss, and it is the scroll bar at the top right corner of the which shows a smaller version of the file being edited (I don't know the exact name).
I find it pretty useful to navigate through my files, especially when i want to start deleting blocks of code i have commented out, before i submit my code.
Is there any plugin to get this on visual studio code, or is there any ongoing plans in order to implement it? Thanks!
Tracked in this feature request: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4865
Are there any plug ins for mentioned IDEs that let me see the whole text file similar to how sublimetext does it? See their website, to the right of the text there is a super minimized overview of the entire file. Amazing feature which makes me want to change to it but i rather want an IDE :/ so i hope eclipse or visual studio might have something similar?
Visual Studio has a plugin called ProgressiveScroll which works on 2010+
It hasn't been updated for a while but seems to work okay in 2013.
Eclipse now has a built-in feature like this since version 4.9, called Minimap.
You can access it from Window -> Show View. If it's not in the list, click Other... at the bottom, and it's under General.
Is there a way in Eclipse to show the methods in a drop down on top of your screen? Like they do in visual studio.
I know I can press Ctrl-O
I just find the visual studio way handy.
Alt-Shift-B will bring up the Breadcrumb, which might be close to what you're looking for. If you click the arrow icons you'll get dropdowns for the packages, classes or methods.
Even if there is no exact same way in eclipse you might find the feature to expand classes in the Package Explorer useful:
I use an older plugin called Veloeclipse for editing Velocity templates in Eclipse. There's been no development on this since 2009, which isn't a problem because it's mainly just for syntax highlighting and format validation. The really annoying thing about it, however, is that when I try to do Show In to view the current Velocity template within my Package Explorer or Project Explorer, the only available option is Properties. That's not really useful. I really need to be able to get to the file in one of the regular explorer views.
So I have sort of two questions:
Is there a way to configure this without having to monkey with any code? A configuration file or something? I've grepped through my Eclipse installation and haven't seen anything, but I'm hoping that there's something I'm missing.
So assuming that the answer to my first question is no, how do I go about modifying the plugin code so that it will show more than the Properties view in the Show In menu? Most of what I found on the plugin development wiki comes from the other direction: how to make your view or perspective appear in the Show In menu.
Any help with this would be hugely appreciated!
Try to check the plugin source code. it might do something different than other editors. What I mean is that the show in menu item that you have there is not the usual extension point but a hard coded context menu option.
I use Dreamweaver at work and NetBeans IDE at home, but in both cases project is stored at github. My problem is that NetBeans seems to be constructing code indenting out of spaces and when opened in dreamweaver or exported to github, indenting here and there breaks (moves unexpectedly further then it was intended or vice versa), although when opened again in NetBeans, goes back to normal. It has been pain for some time already. Is there any resolution to this?
I should say that we at work (and me including) prefer tab indenting.
It depends on the IDE's definition of a TAB. There are usually options within the IDE to indent using a TAB but turn the TAB into a given number of SPACES. I usually indent using TAB but have the IDE turn that into 3 SPACES. This means that it doesn't matter what I (or anyone else) use to read my code later the indets are always the same.
In NetBeans you need to look in the Code Editor options but I have no idea where to find the settings in Dreamweaver.
Its been known that one should use double space rather than tab, because that fact that different IDEs define how the tab button works DIFFERENTLY.
For example, emberjs team require contributor to use double-space rather than tab for formatting the code.
It make sense that to use something recognized in common without an IDE, so that the code structure will not be a problem in a highly collaborated coding team environment.
HOWEVER, if customization of how a tab works in an IDE is enabled, tab will be a great time saver in this case-- Press twice the button cost 200% of the time to press one obviously :)
Hope that helps!