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.
Related
I have a 20-page word document punctuated with descriptive notes throughout, like this:
3 Input Data Requirements
Some requirement text.
NOTE: This is a descriptive note about the requirement, which is the paragraph that I would like to use find-and-replace or a VBA script to select automatically and change the formatting to italicized. The notes invariably end in a carriage-return: ¶.
If it was just a text document, not MS-Word, I would just use a regex in a code editor like sublime to wrap it with <I>...</I> or something along those lines.
Preferably, is there a way to do this in Word's "advanced" find-and-replace feature? Or if not, what's the best way to do it in VBA?
I've tried using a search string like this in find-and-replace: NOTE: *[a-z0-9,. A-Z)(-]{1,255}^l but the line-break part doesn't seem to work, and the 255 char max isn't enough for many of the paragraphs.
EDIT: Another slightly important detail: The doc is automatically generated from another piece of software as a .RTF, which I promptly converted to .docx.
Attempt #2: Use Notepad++ to find and replace using regex. Remove quotes.
Find: "( NOTE: .*?)\r"
Replace with: " \i \1 \i0 \r "
//OLD
Sure is. No VBA or fancy tricks needed.
CTRL + H to bring up the replace dialog.
Click "More".
Select "Font" in the drop down menu called "Format".
Click italics.
Enter find and replace text as the same thing. Make sure you set this up right so that you don't accidentally replace substrings (e.g. goal to replace all " test " with " nice ", testing -> niceing).
Should work. If you need to alter entire paragraphs, consistently, then you probably should have used the styles on those paragraphs to begin with. That way, you can change all of them at once by updating the style itself.
You can use Advance Find, yes. Find Next and then Replace makes the selection Italic.
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.
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.
If I select a variable (not just any string) in my code, all other instances of that variable get a stroke (white outline) around them:
Is there a keyboard shortcut that will let me select all of those instances of the variable and edit them all at once?
Things I've Tried:
⌘D, ⌘K, and ⌘U lets me select them one-by-one, but I have to manually exclude the non-variable string matches:
And using Ctrl⌘G simply selects all the string matches:
Clearly, Sublime is able to differentiate between variable and string matches. Is there no way to select just the variable matches?
Put the cursor in the variable.
Note: the key is to start with an empty selection. Don't highlight; just put your cursor there.
Press ⌘D as needed. Not on a Mac? Use CtrlD.
Didn't work? Try again, making sure to start with nothing selected.
More commands:
Find All: Ctrl⌘G selects all occurences at once. Not on a Mac? AltF3
Undo Selection: ⌘U steps backwards. Not on a Mac? CtrlU
Quick Skip Next: ⌘K⌘D skips the next occurence. Not on a Mac? CtrlKCtrlD
Sublime Docs
I know the question is about Macs, but I got here searching the answer for Ubuntu, so I guess my answer could be useful to someone.
Easy way to do it: AltF3.
Despite much effort, I have not found a built-in or plugin-assisted way to do what you're trying to do. I completely agree that it should be possible, as the program can distinguish foo from buffoon when you first highlight it, but no one seems to know a way of doing it.
However, here are some useful key combos for selecting words in Sublime Text 2:
Ctrl⌘G - selects all occurrences of the current word (AltF3 on Windows/Linux)
⌘D - selects the next instance of the current word (CtrlD)
⌘K,⌘D - skips the current instance and goes on to select the next one (CtrlK,CtrlD)
⌘U - "soft undo", moves back to the previous selection (CtrlU)
⌘E, ⌘H - uses the current selection as the "Find" field in Find and Replace (CtrlE,CtrlH)
This worked for me. Put your cursor at the beginning of the word you want to replace, then
CtrlK, CtrlD, CtrlD ...
That should select as many instances of the word as you like, then you can just type the replacement.
The Magic is, you have to start with an empty selection, so put your cursor in front of the word/character you want to multi-select and press Ctrl+D .
To me, this is the biggest mistake in Sublime. Alt+F3 is hard to reach/remember, and Ctrl+Shift+G makes no sense considering Ctrl+D is "add next instance to selection".
Add this to your User Key Bindings (Preferences > Key Bindings):
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+d"], "command": "find_all_under" },
Now you can highlight something, press Ctrl+Shift+D, and it will add every other instance in the file to the selection.
As user1767754 said, the key here is to not make any selection initially.
Just place the cursor inside the variable name, don't double click to select it. For single character variables, place the cursor at the front or end of the variable to not make any selection initially.
Now keep hitting Cmd+D for next variable selection or Ctrl+Cmd+G for selecting all variables at once. It will magically select only the variables.
It's mentioned by #watsonic that in Sublime Text 3 on macOS, starting with an empty selection, simply ⌃⌘G (AltF3 on Windows) does the trick, instead of ⌘D + ⌃⌘G in Sublime Text 2.
At this moment, 2020-10-17, if you select a text element and hit CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+M it will highlight every instance within the code chunk.
Just in case anyone else stumbled on this question while looking for a way to replace a string across multiple files, it is Command+Shift+F
I was programming in PHP and typing mysql_connect, and by default the single-quotation is automatically closed, so I would have something like this mysql_connect('localhost[cursor is here]'). I still need to type my username and password, it just seems really out of the way to press the right arrow key to escape the single-quotations for writing the other arguments (username/password). Is there a hot key similar to ctrl+enter that can help move my cursor out of the quotations but not to the next line?
I often use Cmd-Right Arrow to move the the end of the line. I also make heavy use of Opt-Right Arrow and Opt-Left Arrow to move words at a time instead of characters.
My solution to this was to record my own macro; it moves the caret to the right, inserts a comma and then a space. I've mapped the macro to command and < (shift and comma). Activating the macro on your code results in:
mysql_connect('localhost', [cursor is here])