According to https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/944 since mintty 3.5.1 there should be a tab bar where you can open multiple tabs with terminals in parallel. For that reason I performed an installation of MSYS2 which includes mintty 3.5.1, as this seems to be the way how to use the mintty. (I verified this with invoking mintty with -V.)
However, I do not find no possibility for opening and/or managing tabs in the UI.
My requirement: I would very much like to have tabs for organizing terminals in parallel.
My question: What's going on here? Did I miss something? Do I need to execute the mintty/MSYS2 with some special commad line options? How can I enable tabs?
You could use --tabbar option when staring minnty. see here for more information.
It was difficult for me to figure out how to turn this feature on. The answer is sprinkled through the comments of this issue, but not in one place. Therefore I'm posting this to save time for others. Here's how you turn the feature on:
Add --tabbar=4 or --tabbar to the windows shortcut that opens mintty:
The 4 is documented here:
no geometry handling; terminal session windows are separate [default]
sync. position/size when switching/launching/closing a session
sync. also when window is moved or resized
sync. also when window is minimized
sync. also when window is started separately
If you'd like to create new tabs with ctrl-shift-t, close tabs with ctrl-shift-w, switch to previous tabs with ctrl-shift-tab, and switch to next tabs with ctrl-tab, add -o "KeyFunctions=t:new-window-cwd;w:close" as an option to that same line.
Personally, I'd like to have ctrl-t/w open and close tabs, respectively, but the only way I've figured how to do that is to add this option: -o CtrlExchangeShift=yes. The problem is, that changes all ctrl-shift commands to become ctrl commands. That means ctrl-r no longer searches bash history.
When you run the shortcut and create some tabs, mintty will look like this:
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By default Terminal.app has a keybinding for ⌘+↑ that scrolls the screen back to (and briefly highlights) the previous command prompt. (This seems to be independent of shell although I've only tried a couple. I'm using bash.)
I'm trying to get similar behavior in iTerm2, but I haven't found a mapping that does that. None of the search terms I've tried in iTerm2's list of key mappings suggest anything like this function. The iTerm2 mapping preset called Terminal.app Compatibility causes ⌘+↑ to scroll through previous commands, the same way ↑ does, rather than the window scrolling back to the lines on which previous commands were input.
Based on this answer to a similar question, I looked through the output of bind -p and see entries "\e[A": previous-history and "\e[B": next-history, but these seem to be describing the scrolling through previously-entered commands rather than scrolling through the entire terminal window output to the prompt at which the command was input. These are the only bind -p entries that refer to up or down arrows (if my assumption is correct that [A refers to the up arrow, which I determined with xxd -psd as suggested in this answer.
Is this behavior in Terminal.app the result of a key binding? Or, how would I determine whether it is or not? And is there a way to get iTerm2 to duplicate this behavior?
Have you tried
fn + CMD + UpArrow ?
Only an ersatz for Terminal.app "going up one prompt at a time” behavior, but maybe helpful as it makes iTerm2 do a Full Page Up consistently across my custom profiles and various key map preferences.
With shell integration installed, iTerm2 creates a "mark" at each prompt, and the default shortcut for moving to the previous mark is ⌘+⇧+↑.
I have two windows of JetBrains IDEA (or of WebStorm or of any other JetBrains IDE) opened.
How to make the second window to be equally fully equipped as the first window?
Now, only first window is fully-fledged. Second window is missing all the "tool windows" (tool bars).
I am usually working on two different issues of one project.
So I would need to have opened the files of the first issue in the first IDEA window - and the files of the second issue to be opened in the second IDEA window.
All the files are from the same project.
(I do not need to have any file opened in both IDEA windows, usually)
The solution is in comment of #Andrey:
You can not open two main IDE windows for the same project. Only as detached editor. Why do you need it? If you are using Task management - there is a feature of Contexts that you may save and switch between.
I'm using Kate as the editor for some programs (Octave and sometimes MySQL).
I really like Kate's functionality, at the moment I've really exploited the link between the editor and the terminal.
I have changed some shortcuts to fit my needs as I replicate the behavior from other programs (it's not a big difference but I mention RStudio, which I also use).
The relevant shortcuts are: Show, Focus, Pipe and Synchronize Terminal. Since I modified Focus Terminal (Ctrl+Volume Off -F1 key-, strange choice but effective because of mentioned similarity with RStudio), it only works one way but it doesn't take me back to the editor. In addition, I noticed that the shortcut name changed to Defocus Terminal.
I'm using Kate version 5.0.0 on KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 and Ubuntu 15.04.
You should set a shortcut to View > Tool Views > Show Terminal, this then works as expected. You may have to save the current session to make it persistent (probably a bug). Invoking the shortcut will then toggle this action.
My first day using this IDE...
is there a way to configure the IDE to open files in the project by double click? It is rather painful having to drag files from the project overview into the editor window.
You can change the KeyMap.
Go to File->Settings and find the keymap section.
You will have to create a new KeyMap by clicking copy, and then look in the View section for "Jump to Source" and change/add the keymap you want.
However, as Bozhidar Batsov noted, double clicking may not always work so well. Whether it works may vary by OS and/or windowing system. I have no trouble with it in Mac OS X, but it doesn't seem to work well in openSUSE.
There are also other predefined keymaps that you can select from this settings screen. They're set up to resemble other IDEs, so you might find them helpful if you're transitioning from something else.
It is easy way to do in windows.
I found a great solution to this problem by Jelmer Kuperus over at Orange11.
Create an .Xresources file in your home directory. Add the following line:
*multiClickTime: 400
Jelmer explains that this setting changes the default double-click speed from 200ms to 400ms, effectively slowing it down. Save the file and then run:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
The effect is immediate, no need to logout or reboot. Double-click in Intellij works as expected. I did try changing the mouse double-click speed in System Settings first before trying this out to see if that made a difference but it did not.
I am using Ubuntu 11.04, Intellij 10.5.2, and Sun JDK 1.6.0_26. YMMV
Use F4 to open quickly the selected files. Btw double clicking on files should work as well(at least in theory). Swing's buggy handling of such events, however, causes the double click to not always work in IDEA, so I eventually stopped double clicking and switched to using F4. You can also use "Autoscroll to source" from the projects menu - this will open the source files as soon as you select them in the project browser.
I use ctags with my Vim and I rely heavily on C-] and C-T to tag back and froth between various functions in my project.
But if the function is in a different file, I'd like Vim to automatically open it in a new tab instead of the current tab. If I pop my tag stack using the C-T, I'd like it go back to the original tab where I pressed by C-] instead of changing the file in the current tab. I don't like to have the same file opened in multiple tabs in Vim. This is the normal behavior for most IDEs and I am wondering if there is a way to do this in Vim?
nmap <C-Enter> <C-w><C-]><C-w>T
Does this help ? You could probably figure out something similar for the way back.
Well, we need to decide what would be the wanted behaviour. We can go back to the original tab (not sure how, still investigating) but then the above given mapping is gonna open a new tab next time. So you'll end up with a lot of tabs after a while.
Or we can do <C-w>C, which will close the opened tab and take us back to the original one. I, personally, prefer this way of working (that way I don't lose my position in the file)
I go to the function I want, make my corrections there then return to the original file from which I started.
Let me know, what would you like (this didn't fit in comments so I put the answer here).
This might point you in the right direction:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Open_every_buffer_in_its_own_tabpage
So, this is a feature I would like to see as well.
I'm not sure if it's possible.
What I usually do is
:tabnew
:tag somepartsoffunction*
and press tab to use globbing to easily find tag.
Sure, it's not an ideal solution, but it works most of the time.
Unfortunately, with VIM tabbing isn't totally integrated since it's a new feature since 7.0. Most people I know that use VIM weren't even aware of tabs until I told them, so with that, I have a feeling there is no way to do it right now.
(I would love to be proven wrong)