in IDEA ,I can type soutto represent System.out.println();and I want to know how to make my own code abbreviation.For example, alias System.out.print(); to sounor any other names
This is called a Live Template in IntelliJ.
Go to File > Settings > Editor > Live Templates. From there, select Java and on the right, you'll see a plus sign. By clicking it, you'll get a 1. Live Template and that will get you a new abbreviation.
Name it soun and the text should be
System.out.print($END$);
Once you're done, make sure you've enabled that abbreviation by clicking the check box next to it.
The docs of IntelliJ cover in detail what the syntax is for these templates.
The $END$ syntax indicates the position of the cursor when the code snippet is complete, and you can no longer press Tab to jump to the next variable.
There are more variables to look at as well and other configurations to do!
Edit: there is an answer here for this question, but it looks like it doesn't necessarily answer the question asked on that post, so that's why I've decided to post a dedicated answer (tackling the issue at hand).
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I've just started to play araound with PHPStorm and I can't get the live templates to work. For example there's one for a public function..'pubf' then tab to expand however when I tab mine out it looks like this...
<pubf></pubf>
What's going on? Is there a setting I need to enable to get it to work?
Thanks
Just for a little more clarity:
Even though you're under the PHP branch, you still need to apply the abbreviation to an application. Click the "Define" link and check the PHP box.
It was a question of scope for the template, just needed to select the appropriate file types.
Try:
Settings / Emmet and changing the default 'Expand abbreviation with' from tab to say custom
Make sure the context is selected underneath your template text. There is a small 'Change' link there where you set the context. I had to choose all contexts.
This question relates to a prior question which was answered for all practical purposes with a fellow telling me I simply needed to press the "End" key to skip the cursor to the end of the line. But a second respondee told me of other IDE's abilities to this (his words): "In some IDE, pressing the tab key will move your cursor to the next placeholders in the currently auto replaced element, and if there is no more placeholders, brings you past the end of the auto replaced text."
What is this ability called?
I'll show an example very quickly, if you or I were writing some code in Aptana or RubyMine (my two favorite IDE's)...
<table summary="Subject detail view">
<tr>
<th>Name*</th>**
</tr>
</table>
We'd eventually run into the location(*), where the single asterisk is. We would reach this point and be forced to either use our mouse to click past the auto-generated </endtag>, or our keyboard arrows, or, most recently, the "End" key which would skip our cursor to the end of the line.
But can't I just do this with tab like my friend told me? In order to be able to do this I need to know what this keyboard shortcut is called. I need a searchable keyword. Any additional feedback about keyboard/IDE shortcuts etc would also be appreciated.
RubyMine (and IntelliJ IDEA platform it's based on) doesn't have this feature yet. There is an open feature request in the YouTrack issue tracker:
IDEA-74666 Add Eclipse Style Paren/Bracket/Quote Completiton
I have figured out the king of all answers for this question, which is my own.
Create your own macro. It is stupid how easy this is to do (with Komodo Edit, at least).
To do this in Komodo Edit, for example, first set yourself up so your cursor is a position where you need the custom command, whatever that might be.
So, let's say your at the end of an xml tag with your cursor where this ("|") symbol is
<xmltag>blahblah|</xmltag>
Now the < /endtag> has been generated automatically, just to make sure you know that.
Now, go to Tools, Macros, Start Recording. Click it. relax, you can do this as many times as you like...it only records keystrokes, by the way, so do this only with your keyboard. To skip to the end of the tag without the arrow keys, use the 'End' key. And I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but in case you didn't know this, you need to use the End key and not the arrows because future tags could be any length.
OK so do this:
<xmltag>blahblah</xmltag>
|
So you're there. Good, now go to Tools, Macros, and stop the recording.
Next, click on tools, macros, and save the macro.
Then, go to your macro library (same tools submenu) and you should see in the toolbox the file which you named which contains your macro.
Right click it, Properties, Key Bindings tab, then set your custom command in the 'new' form. Apply. OK. You're done.
Test it out, and pat yourself on the back, you just learned something really, really, really useful.
Btw, here's another one I've created.
<!-- | -->
That is a macro command as well. Obviously, you could create an entire form with a simple macro command.
Back in olden times, I used to code with an editor that allowed you to mark where you were in the code with a keypress. You could jump to another point in the same or another file to check a reference or somesuch. When you were ready, you could hit another keypress and return to the point you saved.
I've long since migrated to Dreamweaver and wanted this functionality. Does it exist in DW? If so, I missed that part of the manual. If not, any suggestions on an editor that DOES have that functionality?
Scott.
There is no official way to do it, but you could use the code collapse feature to create something like a bookmark. Collapse the single line and DW will have a mark at that line number until you clear it.
I'm Using resharper 6 nighty builds and VB.net. I've a big medium project with multiple files that don't follow the code style conventions of my company.
I've configured resharper with my own convenctions and It suggest to me the right name for each variable (perfect!).
But I can't find any automagic way to make the current name to be replaced with the suggested name.
Are there any way to do it? If not ... did you know ane fearure of coderush Xpress to achieve it?
Thanks.
If you've configured ReSharper with your naming conventions, then it should show a warning (blue squiggly underline) under any identifiers that don't comply. If you put the text cursor on one of those misnamed identifiers, you should see a pyramid icon appear near the left margin. Then you can press Alt+Enter (or click the pyramid icon) to drop down a quick-fix menu. There should be an option in the menu to "Rename to '_myField'". Usually it's the first item in the list, so you can just press Enter again to do the rename.
If you want to do this on everything in a source file, you can use the ReSharper > Inspect > Next Issue in File command (or its keyboard shortcut -- F12 in the IDEA keymap) to move the cursor to the next warning in the file. Then, if it's another name warning, you can use Alt+Enter, Enter again to fix it.
Unfortunately, there isn't a way to automatically fix every instance of a warning at once (though it's been requested; please feel free to vote for RSRP-126551 in their issue tracker).
In our code base there are a few very long methods (several pages worth of code). When reading the code, it would sometimes be good to be able to see the name of the method the current line belongs to, without paging up to the beginning of the method. Is this possible in Intellij IDEA? I am using Intellij IDEA 7.0.3.
You can use View | Context Info (Alt+Q, Ctrl+Shift+Q on Macs). It will display a pop-up on the top of the editor with the current context information (class/method signature).
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This is shown by default at the bottom.
Unfortunately, the method is shown only by name (not including the parameters). If a method is overloaded you won't know for sure where you are.
If you want to move it from bottom to top, go to File > Settings... > Editor > General > Breadcrumbs > check Top:
In the structure panel select the "Autoscroll from source" option.
This way when you place the cursor inside any method the structure panel will show which method you're in.
Intellij now has support for breadcrumbs. Go to settings > appearance and tick "Show breadcrumbs". In this way you can view class/method name without Alt+Q.
For some reason (Alt-Q) wasn't consistent in Android Studio for me. I find (Ctrl-F12) to be pretty satisfactory for this purpose (Navigate|File Structure) though it can be a little laggy in larger files. And by pressing the hotkey again it will populate the list with all the inherited methods as well.