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.
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In intellij 2022.1, I use Ctrl+Shift+R to bring up the Replace in Files window - it shows 100+ matches in 40+ files. The search string and the replace string differ in only one character, for example: this.bar.is.fooed and this.barf.is.fooed. I only need to replace certain instances based on nearby text.
I'm in the groove, clicking the Replace button, checking the next entry, clicking, checking, ... and thinking my brain can keep things straight (it can't; neither can yours:-) I'm halfway through when I realize the last few replaces were wrong.
How can I undo them? Ctrl+Z is grayed out. This related SO question doesn't say and neither does the JetBrains documentation!
Use Local History to revert the changes.
Undo/redo is not supported for Replace dialog, vote for the related request.
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).
Some IDEs offer the feature to automatically format a line or block of code after finishing it e.g. by writing the closing curly or semicolon.
I find it hard to believe that IDEA does not offer this kind of feature. Or does it?
If you know how to turn it on - or if I maybe need some plugin - let me and the world know, please!
If it's a single line, you can use the Complete Current Statement action (which adds a closing bracket, semi-colon, and so on) with ctrl-shift-enter - this seems to reformat the whole line.
Otherwise, you can obviously rebind ctrl-w and ctrl-alt-l (to reformat selected text) or just ctrl-alt-l (reformat whole file) to faster / easier keybindings so that you can quickly reformat whenever you want to.
There is no automatic reformat feature, related requests:
IDEABKL-5806 Automatically trigger code formatter on file save
IDEABKL-475 Hard (auto-)reformat code
See also my answer to the similar question with the Complete Current Statement workaround.
I have a very large piece of code written in VBA (>50,000 lines - numerous modules). There is one array of interest to me, and I'd like to find all the conditions under which the value of any element of this array changes. The values can change in any module. Running the script line by line is not the most efficient option due to the size of the code.
I am looking for better ways to solve this problem. Two ways that come to my mind is to programmatically set a breakpoint (which I am not sure if can be done) or programmatically insert an if-block after each assignment that somehow alerts me that the value has changed. (not preferred).
So my question boils down to:
Is it possible to programmatically set breakpoints in VBA code?
If the answer to the above question is No, what is an efficient way to solve this problem?
UPDATE:
Thanks for the comments/replies. As I had implied, I am interested in the least amount of modification to the current code (i.e. inserting if-blocks, etc) and most interested in the break-point idea. I'd like to know if it's doable.
Use the keyword STOP to break te code if a certain condition is true.
There are Two Ways to do that:
Use Stop Key word. Example as given below, set a break point at Stop
if (x = 21 ) Then
Stop
End If
Using Add Watch
Go to Debug -> Select Add Watch
NB:I know this is an old topic but this could help others.
You could use Watches:
Right click on the variables you wish to monitor -> Add Watch...
In Watch Type: 'Break when value changes'
While you run your code, you can check the status of your Watches thanks to the Watch Window (accessible from the 'View' menu)
in the hope someone can benefit from this :
In such situations regardless of the programming language used - writing a few lines of code either in Perl, AWK or even shell scripts can solve the problem :
search for a regular expression containing the array name (ignoring case).
Once you export all modules and classes in the Workbook(s) into a given directory - the scripts can search those for you.
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.