sql 2016 SSMS Editor is acting weird - editor

The highlighting isn't working, the comment and uncomment toolbar buttons are grayed out. if you click anywhere after a line that is where your cursor is even though there are no real spaces in your line. I have check tools - options so many times I feel like a poster child for that quote "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"
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Sublime Text selection using Lua/love2d

say i have this line of code :
Object.Property.field;
Object.Property:FunctionName();
in all my sublime languages if i was to double click "Property" on either line, it would select just that word.
For some reason my lua/lua love2d syntax highlighting selects the whole line up to the ":"
How can I change this behavior, so it will only select the single word?
The reason this is occurring is because of a somewhat strange addition to the Lua Love plugin, which I assume you're using. You're using Sublime 2, so select Preferences -> Browse Packages... to open up your Packages folder, then open the Lua Love subfolder. There is a file called completions.py, which has this content:
#completions.py
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
import re
class LoveCompletions(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
ST = 3000 if sublime.version() == '' else int(sublime.version())
def on_query_completions(self, view, prefix, locations):
if self.ST < 3000 and ("lua" in view.scope_name(locations[0])):
seps = view.settings().get("word_separators")
seps = seps.replace('.', '')
view.settings().set("word_separators", seps)
Even if you don't know Python, the logic is pretty easy to follow. It sets the variable ST to Sublime's version, which is 3000+ if you're using ST3 (current build is 3061), and is 2221 (I think) for ST2. It then sets up an event listener (the process is always running in the background) checking to see if the Sublime version is less than 3000 (you're using ST2) and you have lua in your current scope (basically, your file is source.lua or source.lua.love, if you're using the plugin's language definition). If both of those are true, it removes the . character from your "word_separators" setting, which is defined in Preferences -> Settings-Default and can be overridden in Preferences -> Settings-User.
The word_separators setting controls what characters are considered to be word separators when double-clicking to select a word. Its default value is ./\\()\"'-:,.;<>~!##$%^&*|+=[]{}`~? so, for example, if you double-click on the foo part of foo-bar Sublime will only select foo, but if you double-click on the foo part of foo_bar Sublime will select the whole thing (since - is in word_separators). . is in word_separators by default, so double-clicking on foo in foo.bar will only select foo, which is expected behavior for most people, I would assume. However, this cute little plugin removes . from word_separators in Sublime Text 2, so in your case clicking on Property selects everything from the beginning of the "word" (the whitespace before Object) to the next word separator - the :, in the case of your second example.
OK, so we know what the problem is, how do we fix it? First, while you're in Packages/Lua Love, just delete completions.py altogether. There's no harm in doing so, and in fact it's actually causing harm by being there. Make sure you restart Sublime after deleting the file. Next, open Preferences -> Settings-User and add . back into the word_separators list, anywhere between the beginning and ending double-quotes. Save that file, go back to your source code, and double-clicking should once again behave normally.
Good luck!
EDIT
I submitted this pull request to delete the completions.py file from the plugin's Github repo, and it was just merged, so hopefully users in the future won't have to deal with this :)

How do I write comments in a SpecFlow Feature?

I'd like to include some comments in a SpecFlow feature.
I get the the following error:
Custom tool error: Parsing error near '/*'
I've tried the following:
// comment
/* comment */
-- comment
' comment
How do I do this?
As stated by sarfest above - its simply #-sign for comments.
There are no multiline comments but that's easily solved if you can do a vertical selection (hold down ALT-key and select in Visual Studio).
Vertical select and the enter a #-sign.
Additional information: the line has to start with a #, and optionally any whitespace. This means you cannot combine comments with actual code on the same line.
also, if you want to perform multiline comments in an easy way (on visual studio),
you can select the lines to be commented, and hit CTRL+K+C to comment, CTRL+K+U to Uncomment.
thank you for the wonderful idea. I just need to press ALT and select the entire lines (just the little space which holds only one character space in each line) and then enter # which result
from
xyz
abc
to
'# xyz'
'# abc'
You can add comment lines to the feature files at any place starting the line with the # sign. Be careful however, as comments in the specification are often signs of wrongly specified acceptance criteria.
The comment lines are ignored by SpecFlow.

Notepad++ like editor with with macrosed text replacements for faster coding

Is there any editor or add-on/plugin which replaces some keywords with prepared snippets in place of written keyword.
For example i'm typing key1 and it's instantly or after a space is replaced with snippet that is assigned to this keyword.
I saw some tutorial from Jeffrey Way long ago, but can't find it now. :s
Thanks ;)
FingerText for Notepad++ pretty much does what you want.
Just use Tab after typing in the keyword you set up for the snippet, and it'll replace it with the snippet.
The Zeus editor has a template feature that does exactly this. A template is a keyword with an associated code snippet and typing in a keyword followed by the space key results in the keyword being replaced by the associated code snippet.
Try installing AutoHotkey version 1.1.19.03 or greater.
One thing it can do is look for sequences of keyboard characters and replace them with other sequences on the fly. As soon as it sees a sequence it will replace it. No activating character is required.
To set up the replacement definitions:
Right click on the Desktop
New
AutoHotkey Script
This will create a template for
your script with the name New AutoHotkey Script.ahk
Edit New AutoHotkey Script.ahk with Notepad++
Put your key snippet lines at
the end, like so:
:*:key1::snippet for key1
:*:key2::snippet this time for key2
Save As My Snippet definitions.ahk
To invoke it: Double click My Snippet definitions.ahk
You can control AutoHotkey by right clicking on its icon on the taskbar.

How do I make Beyond Compare ignore certain differences while comparing versions of Delphi Form Files

I use Beyond Compare (version 3.1.10) to compare different versions of Delphi Form Files, but I don't want to see differences concerning ExplicitTop, ExplicitLeft, ExplicitHeight and ExplicitWidth.
Details:
These lines will always begin with a number of whitespace characters, then "ExplicitXXX = " and a number. Older versions of Delphi didn't have these lines, so I want to ignore differences where these lines are added to the newest version, and I also want to ignore differences where the number has changed.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Edit:
Duplicate (more or less) of:
How do I configure BeyondCompare to ignore SCM replaced text in comments?
Load a pair of DFM files showing the difference.
Click the Session Settings button (aka Rules w/ umpire icon) or use the Session->Session Settings menu item.
Switch to the Importance tab then click the Edit Grammar... button to open a second dialog.
Click the New... button below the top listbox to open a third dialog.
Change the Element Name option to something like Explicit*, change the Text Matching to Explicit(Left|Top|Width|Height) = \d+ and check the Match character case and Regular expression checkboxes, then click Ok, then click Ok again in the second dialog.
Explicit* should now appear in the original dialog's Grammar Elements list. Uncheck it, then change the combobox at the bottom of the dialog from Use for this view only to Update session defaults.
I don't use Beyond Compare, but if you want to have newer versions of Delphi stop adding the (IMO useless) Explicit* properties, you can use Andreas Hausladen's DDevExtensions
In my case (C#), I wanted to ignore the entire line which contained namespaces (and thus, using's) which I changed.
(Referenced Walkthrough - Ignore entire line if text exist in line
ie.
namespace INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE
changed to
namespace INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE.NEW
To do that
In step 5. of Craig's solution, change the Text Matching to
" .\*INSERT.NAMESPACE.HERE.\* "
(include the quotes)
That's it.
Craig Peterson's answer is correct.
N.B. However! The tab 'importance' is not always visible from Session/Session-settings. Always, from inside a Folder list view, it will not be there. It seems there are certain filetypes that do not have it either, though I'm less clear on that. BC has so many options and plugins I bet there is a workaround, but for me I have been ok so far.
http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8457

Pretty Print for (Informix-)4gl code

i'm searching for a pretty print program (script, code, whatever) for Informix-4GL sources.
Do you know any ? Than you, Peter.
Have you looked at the IIUG (International Informix User Group) software archive? There are two pretty printers there (of indeterminate quality).
The other place to look would be the Aubit4GL site - an open source variant of I4GL. Again, I'm not sure that they have a pretty-printer, but it might be something they have (though a casual check doesn't show one).
I don't know if anyone is reading this post anymore, but the easiest way to get some kind of nice "pretty print" of 4gl code is to view it in the Openedge Developer Studio, then use ctrl-I to set indention. You can adjust indention in the editor settings by saying the length of "tabs". (default is 4, I use 3)
Then do a ctrl-shift-f to make all command words uppercase.
Next, you can condense the code a few lines by moving all the "DO:" statements up a line next to the "THEN" statement with this regular expression search and replace.
ctrl-f:
search "\s*\n\s*DO[:]"
replace " DO:"
make sure you click the checkbox marked regular expressions.
At this point the code is nice and tidy.
Do a ctrl-a and ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard.
paste it in Outlook as an email without sending. Print it in color.

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