When I enter two spaces into TextMate 1.5.7, under certain circumstances it seems to treat the two spaces as a single character..
For example when typing ("[space][space]")
(" |")
\_ the cursor
If I then press backspace, both spaces get deleted, and if I press the left arrow it jumps both spaces (which is surprisingly annoying)
It's nothing to do with my soft-tabs setting (which is set to 4 space soft-tab).. Has anyone else noticed this?, or is it something strange with my configuration (unlikely as it happened with a clean install, on a new OS install)?
I've since updated to v1.5.8, and the issue remains.
The double spacing is caused by soft tabs. At the bottom of Textmate where the column indicator, line indicator, file type, and tab size indicators are, click on the soft tabs drop down and click soft tabs to turn it off.
Consider that textmate is an editor for programmers. in most programming languges the number of spaces doesn't matter, so it doesn't seem to me that strange.
Anyway, I use 1.5.8 and I don't have this problem. I also looked in the configuration window and I can't see anything about it.
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The editor for the GUI is a complete mess. When I create a brand new script, the spacing and font are relatively ok.
However, if I open any existing function, it is shown with way too much space between lines, and spaces and tabs show way more space than they should. An example is shown below:
I tried selecting the Edit - Preferences - General - Use custom file editor options, and chose "notepad++ -n%l %f. I have notepad++ installed already on my computer.
When I selected this option and clicked ok, the Octave GUI crashed. When I tried to reopen a file now, I get the error "could not start custom file editor".
If I change the font, it temporarily fixes the issue. But none of the changes persist. Often clicking OK crashes octave. And any time it's reopened, the fonts revert to default, and the spacing problems returns.
How can I make the editor show an appropriate leading and space width?
I would also like to be able to further customize, if possible. For example I'd like it to use a dark theme. But for now just showing a reasonable space between lines would make this at least useable.
I'm using Windows 10, Octave version 6.4.0
Using PhpStorm, I usually have 2 or 3 source files opened in splitted editors. Now that I have a secondary screen, I've put all the toolbars in the second screen, and I'd like to have a fixed 3-splits layout for my editors. But as soon as I close the last tab in one of the splits, that split is gone.
I've search through PhpStorm options and surfed for an answer, but didn't seem to find how to do it.
Is there any way to fix the split layout in PhpStorm?
It is not possible to get such behaviour in current version.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-66407 -- watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to get notified on progress.
I've recently upgraded to Xcode 5.1 and I'm experiencing the most annoying bug. The instant search or method search dialog that allows you to search the methods on the given source file you are looking at isn't allowing me to enter more than one character. I have large source files and I tend to rely on that a lot. Any idea why this might be happening. I've tried re-installing Xcode (simply be dragging it in the trash).
You can find the search field I'm talking about by clicking the method as shown in the screenshot and simply typing something.
When I type the character gets replaced with the last letter entered.
(This one's just informational: I don't think it will fit in a comment, and want to report on what suggestions worked and didn't.)
I ran into this same problem. I accidentally typed some other key combo when trying to do Ctrl+6 to open the Document Items dropdown, and it was all out of whack after that.
As clance_911 mentioned, the filtering would work after clicking in the search box. So for example, to filter for "init", I could hit Ctrl+6 to open the Document Items, type "i" to start filtering (but then any subsequent letters would replace the i), click into the search text box, and continue typing the "nit". This works, but it's a pain.
As Moze pointed out, this seems to be specific to external displays. Sure enough, it worked fine on my MacBook display, but if I moved Xcode over to the external display, it stopped working. In my case, dragging the menu bar in the display Arrangements settings (to make the external monitor the main display) did solve the problem: the filter worked correctly with Xcode in either window. Sorry, Etienne :-(
The other solution that worked for me was simply closing the MacBook: use it in clamshell mode with only the external display. This is my normal setup anyway, but I know that's not ideal for everyone.
It happens if Xcode is open in external display that is not main display.
To fix it, open display setting's Arrangement tab and drag menu bar to display that you are working on.
Is there a shortcut key for editing multiple lines in RubyMine (Windows) as you can do with TextMate? I've seen it in TextMate where you can highlight multiple lines, and press a key code, then start typing. All text you type will appear at the end of all of the highlighted lines. I would love to do this with RubyMine as well.
Thanks!
Yes, this feature is called Column Mode and can be enabled via Edit menu or keyboard shortcut.
RubyMine version 6.3 and later has real multiple line editing. Simultaneously edited areas of text need not be vertically adjacent and vertically aligned (as they must be to use Column Selection Mode).
Briefly,
option-click (on Mac; alt-click on Windows or Linux) to create additional carets, edit as usual, then hit escape to revert to a single caret
select some text and control-G (on Mac; alt-J on Linux and Windows) to search for the next occurrence of that text and add a caret to it
There are also editor commands to add carets (Clone Caret Below, Clone Caret Above) that are not bound by default, but that you can bind to keys of your choice.
More here: What’s Mining: Multiple Cursors and Selection
(Column Selection Mode still works fine for areas of text that are vertically adjacent and aligned.)
Often I find myself with some text where I want to exclude a certain part of the text, say the first three characters of 40 lines. The fastest way I could think of to do this would be to draw a rectangle and copy the text. I am mostly using Windows, but I am sure grep or something similar could do this with a tiny bit of code. My best way of doing this is to open Command Prompt. Then run "Edit" (yes the good old one). Then paste the text in there (this actually takes a significant amount of time). Then I am able to select the rectangle I am after.
Is there any other editors that support this feature? I am familiar with Notepad++.
You can select a rectangular area to cut/copy in Visual Studio be pressing the Alt key prior to making your selection with the mouse or (Shift +) cursor keys. See How to: Select and Change Text.
The Zeus editor can do keyboard driven column cut/copy and paste.
Also the default Zeus mouse marking is in column mode.
If you use Vim, Ctrl + V will let you select a rectangular block of text.
The documentation says Ctrl + Q will let you do a rectangular select in mswin compatibility.
Emacs supports kill-rectangle (bound to C-x r k by default) and yank-rectagle (C-x r y) to achieve this. Also of possible interest is delete-extract-rectangle (no default binding, and intended for programming use).
You use it by navigating to one corner of the interesting area, hitting C-<space> to set the mark, navigating to the opposite corner, and invoking the desired function.
UltraEdit has a column mode (menu Column/Column Mode, keyboard
shortcut Alt + C). This makes it possible to make block selections, delete, insert column-wise, etc. using only the keyboard (the mouse works too).
For your example: make a zero width selection at column position 1 for the 40 lines and press Delete three times. Or simply make the 3 x 40 block select and press Delete.
You can do this with NEdit (which is available for Windows). Hold down Ctrl and drag the mouse (left-click) to select rectangles.
In Linux, you could also just use cut:
cut -b4- file
It will remove the first three characters from every line and print the result to standard output.
jEdit supports vertical selections (keyboard shortcut is Alt + \). It can also do multiple, non-continuous selections (keyboard shortcut is Ctrl + \). And when you type it affects all selections, so you can edit multiple lines at the same time, or the same line in more than place simultaneously. Or both.
Vertical pasting is also supported. This is a feature I use all the time. It makes editing columns a breeze.
If you have too many lines to select easily, then jEdit's Find And Replace is as good as it gets.
jEdit is a Java application, and so uses more system resources than most editors. But on the other hand it works on most systems, and it has loads of plug-ins to make editing text more efficient.
This can be done using JGSoft's Editpad which has a freeware lite version that is not crippled.
In IntelliJ, go to Edit and then click on Column Selection Mode. Or use the ALT+SHIFT+INSERT shortcut.