I was coding something and suddenly android studio started placing cursors on each and every selected line. I dont know if it is a feature that was fired because of some shortcuts that I am not aware of. This is the gif screencast.
How can I disable this behavior? Is it a feature? If so how to activate and deactivate it? What is it called?
You must have activated Column Selection Mode.
Use Main Menu | Edit | Column Selection Mode to toggle it ON/OFF.
Check more on different ways how you can work with Multiple Carets: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/multicursor.html#column_selection
If you are on mac ⌘ (Cmd) + ↑ (Shift) + 8 will disable/enable it by default.
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Whenever I press Ctrl + / to comment out a line in Android Studio in a C++ file, it just moves the caret down 1 line without making a comment. Creating a different keybinding for this shortcut has the same effect.
I've used this feature fine before, it only started happening when I opened up android studio today. I've tried disabling all plugins and restarting Android Studio to no avail.
If the keyboard shortcut doesn't work. Then try
Alt + Shift + Insert
What It will do is activate column selection mode, making it easy to just click and drag to select multiple lines of code that you can type on. It's easier than trying to make an entirely new keyboard shortcut.
The other way to do Column Selection Mode is to just right click anywhere on the code and it will be in menu popup, click to activate/de-activate.
In Android Studio, pressing the up an down arrows will change the contrast of the autopopup bar.
Before
After
This also occurs in the default themes. Is there anyway to make the contrast start in the after position, even without pressing any arrows?
The popup is dimmed to indicate that there is no default selection for completion. It depends on context and in some cases the first entry will be selected automatically, while in the other cases you need to select the completion varian with the arrow keys first.
To get the pre-selection work automatically in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio enable the Insert selected suggestion by pressing space, dot, or other context-dependent keys option:
In some other cases it may be also necessary to add
-Dide.completion.lookup.element.preselect.depends.on.context=false
in Help | Edit Custom VM Options and restart the IDE.
Related issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-193090.
Description
I'm using some intellij products (WebStorm, PHPStorm) and Android Studio and have the same issue with both of theses.
I have an azerty keyboard, with a french layout.
I can type without issue in these softs, but I can't activate shortcuts.
When I try to activate a shortcut (e.g ctrl+z), the activated shortcut is ctrl+w.
the shortcut is correctly triggered, but with the wrong keyboard layout. It seems that when I type, my french keyboard is used, but when I want to use a shortcut, the english layout seems to be used.
Is this a known bug (if so, I've not found any mentions about it), or did I miss something?
What I've tried
I'm running on Fedora 29, with Gnome 3.
I've tried to see if it wasn't reproductible with others softs (e.g firefox/ vscode), and I can't reproduce this.
I've tried to see if it wasn't based on my keyboard settings, so I ran xev to monitor the output of pressed keys. I can't reproduce this issue.
In intellij settings, I've tried to set Keymap > Prefer key position over key char with national layout both true and false, it doesn't seem to change anything.
Current situation
Here is an exemple of a shortcut definition in Android Studio.
I pressed A to Y keys on my french keyboard (which output A,Z,E,R,T,Y), and then press the same keys with ctrl (which output ctrl+Q instead of ctrl+A and so on)
https://imgur.com/a/U4aFd7F
Expected situation (tl;dr)
I expect that when I press ctrl+a, the shortcut triggered inside intellij products is ctrl+a instead of ctrl+q
It is indeed a known bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-165950
In the bug report another workaround is mentioned for Gnome 3:
Re-order the languages in Settings > Language and Region tab, put English(US) first of the input source list.
I solved it by running setxkbmap fr. I don't know why this is required by intellij products, but it works.
Is there a way to disable mouse support in file edition on ideavim? It is really annoying that it enters into visual mode each time I click.
It isn't possible to have the same behavior as vim without mouse in terminal, but can I have it on pycharm's ideavim?
I also hate when the editor suddently goes into visual mode when I accidentally drag with the mouse. I ended up modifying the ideavim source and compiled my own version. I got the idea from another answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24256022/598781
I just return immediately in the EditorMouseHandler.mouseDragged method. i.e. changed line 1772 in the file ideavim/src/com/maddyhome/idea/vim/group/MotionGroup.java to:
if (true || !VimPlugin.isEnabled()) return;
This change could have some consequences, but I don't use mouse select anyway.
It's not possible to disable mouse support in Vim emulation. Note however that IdeaVim switches to Visual selection mode only when you're selecting text with the mouse. Simple clicks shouldn't make IdeaVim enter visual selection mode.
You should try :set selectmode=mouse,ideaselection. It is a workaround but that worked for me.
https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-commands.md
In Android Studio, my cursor is white rectangle. I'm cannot write anything. And changed my keyboard button actions.
h-->left arrow j-->down arrow k--> up arrow l-->right arrow
How can I fix problem or can I reset Android Studio settings?
Just got the same problem as yours. And this is the solution:
Go to File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance, then uncheck the Use block caret
Try fn + ins. That worked for me.
Go to settings and plugins and just disable the IdeaVim plugin it works in 2020.itx also occurs due to this extension.
In windows, win+insert worked for me.
Presse Fn+0. It will work instantly.
go to plugins and disable IdeaVim then restart android studio it will be ok ...
Press Fn + Del on your keyboard together.
Explanation: Its because Delete key on keyboard has Insert function. So pressing Del along with Fn key will enable Insert mode within your editor from Overwrite mode as in your case.
It's ins in the latest version of Android Studio.
In windows if you press INSERT key cursor mode will get change,use WINDOWS + INSERT to get back into normal mode
For mac users just right click and deselect "Column selection mode" or press Shift + Command + 8
Just restart Android Studio and voilà !
None of the other solutions worked for me (Windows 7, maybe with an inactive Lock Num key).