I'm creating several tabs in my project, and when I use '&' char it isn't displayed as it should be.
For example:
"Tab &1" -> number is underlined
So I figured that I could use:
"Tab &&1" -> and that result in "Tab &1"
I could add additional '&' manually, but I don't know if there are any more chars that don't work straight forward.
I didn't found any reference on my problem and tab names in my project aren't static.
Here is what I do on WM_CREATE:
RECT rcClient;
GetClientRect(hwnd, &rcClient);
TabControl = CreateWindow(WC_TABCONTROL, "", WS_CHILD | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | WS_VISIBLE,0, 0, rcClient.right, rcClient.bottom, hwnd, (HMENU)0, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);
TCITEM tie;
tie.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
tie.pszText = "Tab &&1";
TabCtrl_InsertItem(TabControl, 0, &tie);
Well, Unicode is a mountain of special characters, have some fun googling "zalgo".
But the behavior of the & character, and just that particular one, is nailed down as special in the DrawTextEx() winapi function. Note the DT_HIDEPREFIX option, explicitly dedicated to controlling the behavior of strings containing the & glyph. Not an accident, accurately underlining a single character is ridiculously difficult if you have to do it yourself.
Beyond zalgo there's not that much to worry about. Control characters can be a bit flaky, like "\t" and "\n", you never really use them by accident. And above all, if there's an accident then you'll see it rather quickly :)
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Assuming I have the following code:
bool myCopiedFunc() {
Some code that I've written;
The cursor is on this line; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
if (something) {
bool aValue;
some of this is inside braces;
return aValue;
}
if (somethingElse) {
this is also inside braces;
bool anotherValue;
{
more braces;
}
return anotherValue;
}
return false;
}
I decide I want to rewrite the remainder of the function, from the line with the cursor on it.
To replace up to a char on the same line, I can use ct<char> e.g. ct;
To replace up to and including a char on the same line I can use cf<char> e.g. cf;
To replace up to a string across multiple lines, I can use c/<string> e.g. c/return false
To replace up to and including a string across multiple lines, I can use... ?? e.g. ??
I can't just search for a semicolon, as there are an unknown number of them between the cursor and the end of the function, and counting them would be slow.
I can't just search for a closing brace, as there are several blocks between the cursor and the end of the function, and counting all closing braces would be slow.
With the help of code highlighting, I can easily see that the unique string I can search for is return false.
Is there an elegant solution to delete or change up to and including a string pattern?
I've already looked at a couple of related questions.
Make Vim treat forward search as "up to and including" has an accepted answer which doesn't answer my question.
In my case, I settled for deleting up to the search string, then separately deleting up to the semicolon, but it felt inefficient, and like it would have been quicker to just reach for the mouse. #firstworldproblems
To replace up to and including a string across multiple lines, I can
use... ?? e.g. ??
The / supports offsets.
In your case, you are gonna need the e offset, that is, c/foo/e.
You may want to know more details about "search offset":
:h offset
If you'll replace up to the closing brace associated to your current scope, you have c]}.
If you're looking for the end of the function, even if it means crossing to the upper scope, you'll need a plugin if the function may not be 0-indented as it's the case in C++, Java... See the related Q/A on vi.SE
I'm having issues when trying to remove the first space of a string if that string has 2 spaces in it. For example it should be turning "Fully Functional Method" into "FullyFunctional Method", but "Functional Method" should not be changed because it only has 1 space. I can't really think of a way to remove first space if the string contains 2 spaces.
I don't know exactly what you want to do, but you may search into RegExp and String.replace() to replace some stuff in a String.
Here is another link to understand the Characters, metacharacters, and metasequences.
var myPattern1:RegExp = / /g;
var str1:String = "This is a string that contains double spaces.";
trace(str1.replace(myPattern1, " "));
//this replaces all " " by " "...
//outputs : This is a string that contains double spaces.
Or in your case (I suppose) something like this
var myPattern2:RegExp = / /;
var str2:String = "Fully Functional Method";
trace(str2.replace(myPattern2, ""));
//If you omit the g, only the first space will be replaced by ""
//outputs : FullyFunctional Method
There is so much things you can do by using RegExp, that I will not explain this here...
Just check on the Adobe website...
This is a quick and efficient way to work on Strings.
I hope this will help.
Since you check at those links, you will understand that my example is pure rough and should be modified to have a FullyFunctional Method. :D
Do a linear scan through the string. Count the number of spaces and record the index of the first space, if any. If there are two spaces, return a string that is the concatenation of the characters up to but not including the first space, and the characters after the first space.
Keep it simple. It is possible to solve your problem with regex, but keep in mind that the worst case time complexity of finding a particular character in an unsorted set is always going to be O(N), so it won't be faster.
I've already read several questions and answers:
Vim: Use tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment with C source files
Vim: Align continous lines with spaces
But none of them offers a solution for me.
I really want to apply the "Indent with tabs, align with spaces" principle, but when it comes to auto-indentation, I failed to teach Vim how to do that right.
Consider the code, assuming tabstops == 3, shiftwidth == 3
(>-- means tab, and . (a dot) means space):
{
>--long a = 1,
>-->--..b = 2,
>-->--..c = 3;
}
So, it indents with tabs as much as possible, and then fills the rest with spaces. But it is actually a very bad approach: when someone will read this code with different tab size, the code will be messed up. Here what it will look like with tab size equal to 8 chars:
{
>-------long a = 1,
>------->-------..b = 2,
>------->-------..c = 3;
}
It is horrible. The problem is that Vim doesn't distinguish between indentation and alignment.
To make it look correctly with whatever the tab size is, the code should be indented this way:
{
>--long a = 1,
>--.....b = 2,
>--.....c = 3;
}
Then, this code will look nice whatever that tab size is. For example, 8 chars:
{
>-------long a = 1,
>-------.....b = 2,
>-------.....c = 3;
}
How to achieve this?
The most powerful way to influence indenting in Vim is via 'indentexpr'. From its :help:
The expression must return the number of spaces worth of indent. It
can return "-1" to keep the current indent (this means 'autoindent' is
used for the indent).
As this returns the number of spaces, not the rendered indent itself, and Vim only so far supports tab-, space-, or maximal-number-of-tab-followed-by-spaces (called softtabstop), this cannot be done.
So, if you really want to use this indent method (I personally like it for its purity and elegance, too! (but I don't employ it)), you have to turn off auto-indenting and auto-formatting and do the entire stuff manually by yourself, unfortunately.
As you already pointed out, vim cannot distinguish if you're pressing tab to indent or because you're trying to align text, so is not possibile to automatize the behaviour you want.
Closest thing you can do is to try to play with softtabstop and different values for tabstop, but this way you get the reverse of what you asked for: pressing a tab is going to insert as much spaces possibile before using a tab.
On a side note, if you want your code to always look like you intended, you could try directly setting expandtab.
Spaces always look the same, so
{
.........long a = 1,
..............b = 2,
..............c = 3;
}
is how your code will always appear.
Is there a multiline string literal syntax in Matlab or is it necessary to concatenate multiple lines?
I found the verbatim package, but it only works in an m-file or function and not interactively within editor cells.
EDIT: I am particularly after readbility and ease of modifying the literal in the code (imagine it contains indented blocks of different levels) - it is easy to make multiline strings, but I am looking for the most convenient sytax for doing that.
So far I have
t = {...
'abc'...
'def'};
t = cellfun(#(x) [x sprintf('\n')],t,'Unif',false);
t = horzcat(t{:});
which gives size(t) = 1 8, but is obviously a bit of a mess.
EDIT 2: Basically verbatim does what I want except it doesn't work in Editor cells, but maybe my best bet is to update it so it does. I think it should be possible to get current open file and cursor position from the java interface to the Editor. The problem would be if there were multiple verbatim calls in the same cell how would you distinguish between them.
I'd go for:
multiline = sprintf([ ...
'Line 1\n'...
'Line 2\n'...
]);
Matlab is an oddball in that escape processing in strings is a function of the printf family of functions instead of the string literal syntax. And no multiline literals. Oh well.
I've ended up doing two things. First, make CR() and LF() functions that just return processed \r and \n respectively, so you can use them as pseudo-literals in your code. I prefer doing this way rather than sending entire strings through sprintf(), because there might be other backslashes in there you didn't want processed as escape sequences (e.g. if some of your strings came from function arguments or input read from elsewhere).
function out = CR()
out = char(13); % # sprintf('\r')
function out = LF()
out = char(10); % # sprintf('\n');
Second, make a join(glue, strs) function that works like Perl's join or the cellfun/horzcat code in your example, but without the final trailing separator.
function out = join(glue, strs)
strs = strs(:)';
strs(2,:) = {glue};
strs = strs(:)';
strs(end) = [];
out = cat(2, strs{:});
And then use it with cell literals like you do.
str = join(LF, {
'abc'
'defghi'
'jklm'
});
You don't need the "..." ellipses in cell literals like this; omitting them does a vertical vector construction, and it's fine if the rows have different lengths of char strings because they're each getting stuck inside a cell. That alone should save you some typing.
Bit of an old thread but I got this
multiline = join([
"Line 1"
"Line 2"
], newline)
I think if makes things pretty easy but obviously it depends on what one is looking for :)
I would like to create a macro or a script in Vim that does the following:
wrap a block of text in double quotes
escaping any quotes that appear in the text itself
have the quotes on the right side in vertical alignment
For example:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>High Score Server</h1>
<table>
ROWS
</table>
</body>
</html>
would become:
"<html> "
"<head></head> "
"<body> "
"<h1>High Score Server</h1>"
"<table> "
"ROWS "
"</table> "
"</body> "
"</html> ";
I am able to achieve this with a macro, but without the vertical alignment of the quotes on the right side. Can anyone help me with this one?
What I'd do :
With "surround" and "Align" plugins :
1) with cursor on first line (0,0), type <C-V>)$s"
2) then <S-V>):Align " and <Enter>.
Another solution without plugins :
1) set virtual mode
:set ve=all
2) <C-V> to go in block-wise selection, with cursor at the position 0,0
3) go down to the bottom of the text, then Shift-I, type " and Esc. This should prepend the quotes.
4) now go on the left end (since ve=all, you can go where there is no text)
5) <C-V>, go down to bottom, type r"
This is long to explain, but easy to do and reproduce. Also useful in lots of case.
function Enquote()
let [startline, endline]=sort([line("'<"), line("'>")])
let lines=getline(startline, endline)
let lengths=map(copy(lines), 'len(split(v:val, ''\zs''))')
let maxlen=max(lengths)
call map(lines, '''"''.v:val.repeat(" ", maxlen-lengths[v:key]).''"''')
return setline(startline, lines)
endfunction
Explanation:
line("'<") and line("'>") get the line numbers of start and end of last visual selection.
sort([...]) sorts this line numbers since you may have started selecting lines from the end of the selection.
let [a, b]=[c, d] is a parallel assignment: sort will produce a sorted list of two items, where first item is lesser or equal to second item. Obviously, lesser is a first selected line.
len(split(v:val, '\zs')) is an advanced strlen() which supports unicode.
max(list) finds a maximum value. Obvious.
So, map(copy(lines), 'len(split(v:val, ''\zs''))') applies this strlen to all items in list. copy() is required since we do not want our list to be modified.
map(lines, '''"''.v:val.repeat(" ", maxlen-lengths[v:key]).''"''') modifies an lines in a way you require. I switched from printf to repeat because printf does not handle multibyte characters correctly (by «correctly» I mean that «¥» is one character long, while printf considers it two bytes long).
setlines(linenumber, listoflines) actually modifies buffer.
Making use of the unix program "par" to do this may well solve your problem. There's a Vimcast showing how to integrate it into vim over at http://vimcasts.org/episodes/formatting-text-with-par/
Is it possible to make two passes over the list of lines in vim script? Then you can do something like this (pseudocode):
let N = length of longest line
for each line L:
insert a " character at the beginning
append N - len(L) spaces
append a " character
best i got is a 3-pass regex.
select block in visual mode, then use:
:'<,'>s#^#"#
:'<,'>s#$# #
:'<,'>s#\(.\{28\}\).*#\1"
with the 28 being the length of your longest line.
By all means heed the previous answers and get your vim-fu in shape. Or install/modify/poke-the-author of this plugin:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4727
From the plugin's page:
This script converts multi-line text in a C++ file to a multi-line
string literal, escaping the quote and tab characters. It also does
the reverse conversion, un-escaping some characters. It's not too
complete for now, but it will be someday if needs come.
If you need to make changes use the source-code repository:
https://bitbucket.org/dsign/stringliteral.vim
In two passes:
let l = max(map(getline("'<", "'>"), 'strwidth(v:val)'))
'<,'>s/.*/\=('"'.submatch(0).repeat(' ', l-strwidth(submatch(0)) )).'"'