For regular VIM it is possible to delete characters through a certain character, as evident in this post about deleting from current position until a space. This seems to also work in IdeaVIM for the most part. For instance, pressing "dfx" will delete through the character "x". However, if you specify the character as ";" IdeaVim will not behave as expected. Instead of deleting through the semicolon, it does nothing. Is there a way that I can have ";" accepted as a valid character for this IdeaVIM command?
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There is no easier way to explain what I want to do than a picture:
I would like to reduce the time it takes me to refactor HTML code by deleting all the white space behind (or before, doesn't matter that much) my caret until the next non-blank character, emphasized by the highlighted blue whitespace I would like to delete. I found a way to do this on vim, but I want to do this on Intellij.
Try Ctrl+Alt+J (⌃⇧J on Mac) on the <a>... line to perform the 'Join Lines' action.
More information on the feature can be found here and here.
I'm using VB.NET, and my code contains a lot of strings that very often have double quotes inside of them. My problem is that as I'm fixing the string to escape double quotes (replacing every '"' with '""' inside of the string) it messes with the proceeding code, temporarily assuming everything is a string (since the double quotes don't match up) and completely messing up the formatting of other strings. It assumes that the start of a following string is the end of the current string which causes the actual string to be interpreted and formatted as code, which I have to go back and fix (since it adds spaces and other formatting characters that shouldn't actually be there).
Is there any way to disable this behavior? I didn't have the same problem in VS2013. I've been looking under Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic, but I couldn't find anything relevant.
Additional Information: I can just modify the strings in a separate text document to escape all of the double-quotes (which is what I've resorted to for now), but in VS2013 I could easily just copy/paste the strings directly into my code without it messing up proceeding strings by temporarily interpreting them as code due to the uneven count of double-quotes.
This behavior is especially problematic when manually adding double-quotes within strings, because if you don't escape them quickly enough (or make a brief typo when doing so), you get the same issue.
You might notice that for other languages, such as C++, writing a string on one line (even with an uneven number of double-quotes) does not affect proceeding lines. Having this same behavior for VB would be great, assuming that there's some setting to enable it.
Yes its an inconvenience.
What I usually do is put some non-used character (e.g. some unused symbol on keyboard, or Alt+{some number}) instead of double quotes. When I'm done building my string whatever way I want, I just finalize it with either bringing up the Find and Replace box and replace that character with two double-quotes. Or just put a REPLACE statement immediately following it, replacing that character with Chr(34).
Instead use Chr(34), or if you end up repeating strings at all, store them as a resource.
Is there a way on IntelliJ to remove surrounding parenthesis, brackets, quotes, etc? For example, if I have:
"string"
Is there any way to remove the matching quotes and get this?
string
Not directly, but the following replace expression (ctrl+R, tick Regex) might help:
Search for: "(.*)"
replace with: $1
Edit: I found an easier way (plugin code with regex left below for nostalgia)
Webstorm has extend selection and shrink selection
on mac they are bound to alt-upArrow and alt-downArrow
You can use extend selection to select the content and the quotes/braces/parens, then record a macro (i called mine unwrap) and perform the following actions:
shrink selection once
copy
extend selection once
paste
then you can save the macro and add a key binding.
Any time you want to unwrap something, you can just extend the selection until it includes the outer braces, then hit your hotkey and it will replace the selection including the braces with their inner contents.
I made a mini-plugin,
which i install/code using live-plugin.
It relies on this Regex:
[\["'({](.+)['"})\]]
The Regex will also often work in the Search/Replace function in webstorm
(with Regex and In Selection checked), but it fails in mysterious cases:
eg. single quotes that are inside parens - even if the outer parens are not in the selection to be considered
IDEA have an action to go to matching brace.
You can create macro with something like: goto next brace - delete one char - goto prev brace - delete one more char.
And then set kb shortcut to this macro.
Splice Sexp, which is Alt+S on Mac.
I have an annoying bug regarding intellij 14.0.3. The issue is that it keeps indents on empty lines and I can't remove that whitespace in any way. Under code style, I have not checked the checkbox "keep indents on empty lines" and judging from the display how that functionality works I'd say it would do it.
However, it still keeps the indents and that creates bad diffs in git since whitespace is added. Is this a bug? Can I in any way remove them? I have tried to uncheck that checkbox under both the language I use and the main one. None of them seems to change it.
Try enabling the Strip trailing spaces on save option in Settings/Editor/General.
You can choose whether this should be performed for All lines or only the lines you modify to avoid creating unnecessary diffs.
The whitespace is stripped when you explicitly hit CTRL+S or automatically after some period (IntelliJ has autosaving).
One thing to note is that if you have cursor on an empty line and there are some spaces before it, hitting CTRL + S won't strip the whitespace, because this would probably be annoying as your cursor would jump to the beginning of the line if the file was autosaved by IntelliJ (I read somewhere on YouTrack that this was a design decision).
Here is a screenshot of the option I describe:
What I did to strip spaces without having to open & save each file is running a regex in the find and replace window:
Ctrl+Shift+R
Text to find ^ +\n Find every line that starts with (^) one or more spaces ( +) and nothing else (/n).
Replace with: \n A new line.
General > Regular expression (obviously important to check this box)
Eventually you may want to limit the scope because this will be quite the lengthy operation
Find and eventually continue if IDEA warns for the high amount of occurrences.
Click All Files to run the actual replace operation. It might take some time before IDEA to respond.
When I start typing a quoted text I hit " and begin typing my text. At the end I hit again " to close the quote.
However, what happens next is completely wrong and annoying.
In the picture above the ending quote is underlined. In order to fix it I have to type any character to make it go away. The typed character is not printed and the underline form " goes away.
When I don't do this and now put the cursor to another position in the code while the " is still underlined and start typing again the first character at the new cursor position is the ". The " where it was before is removed or moved to the new cursor position.
How can have a normal quote behavior?
I couldn't find any other quote setting in the config.
Btw. The Insert pair quotes setting is disabled
Intellij 13.1.5, MacOS 10.9
Normally I use a US layout to hack and the German layout for anything else.
I always wondered what is the actual difference between the US Layout and US International (PC) layout. Turns out, that the described problem in my question is one of those differences.
After switching from US International (PC) to US Layout, the problem is gone.