Main question
I would like to add powerline characters at the start and at the end of the selected completion, like this:
Started the completion menu by inserting c and pressing the TAB key.
Moved right in the completion menu by pressing the right arrow key.
Moved down in the completion menu by pressing the down arrow key.
Is there any way to make zsh look/behave like in the pictures?
Note
Added powerline triangle + blank character at the beginning and blank character + powerline triangle at the end should somehow be accounted when columns are created to keep the alignment correct.
Bonus
Add 2 blanks at the beginning of every completion in the list, so that when the completion is selected it doesn't look like the text was moved to the right.
( This issue can be seen by comparing the completion with and without the selection. )
Alternative question
In case that previously explained behavior is impossible to get without changing the zsh source code, is it at least possible to add powerline triangle only at the end of the selected completion?
My unsuccessful attempts
I have tried using the lc, rc, and ec variables in the list-colors style but that didn't help:
Completion list was badly aligned and it created all kinds of visual problems.
Symbols were inserted in all elements of the completion list, not just the selected one.
I have also tried using the ma variable, but I couldn't properly insert a character at the beginning:
The variable expects only a number that represents a color and it is probably wrapped in some escape sequences, so the output did not look as expected.
This works for me.
zstyle ":completion:*:default" list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS} "ma=48;5;153;1"
Uses my LS_COLORS and then ma sets the background of my selection to bold and color 153 from https://jonasjacek.github.io/colors/.
Found from https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2010/msg00811.html
Related
When I highlight any string of text in the R Studio console a rectangle is drawn around all other occurrences of this same string of text. How do I advance to the next occurrence of this arbitrary string of text? I'd like the keyboard shortcut.
CTRL-F3 is the closest shortcut I know. This takes the selected string of text, drops it into the Find dialog and jumps to the next occurrence (keep pressing CTRL-F3 to cycle through)
If you would like to move to the next occurrence of a word/variable and select it while also keeping the original selected, this command exists but does not have a default shortcut assigned to it.
The command is called 'Find and add next' (or 'Quick Add Next' in older versions). You can assign a shortcut to it by going into Preferences -> Code -> Modify_Keyboard_Shortcuts. I use Alt+Cmd+Right (on a Mac) as that is an unassigned key binding.
You can see bellow I have used the command twice to select three of the four instances.
On a Mac, I use command+f to call Find with a selected string and then use control+g to move onto the next match.
This needs to be over 30 characters, but only needs 2:
F3
My code is,
LOOP TRAP x20 ;get c
TRAP x21 ;out
BRnzp LOOP
It will output any letter to the consoles, it will return carriage, tab, but it won't backspace, and the delete button doesn't even show up in a register. Backspace will just show some character, looks like []. Delete shows nothing.
I tried another version without inputs where I used the delete ascii value and the start of text ascii value to move the cursor and delete but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Is there another way to clear the console out? I could work around it if I spam a bunch of new lines until it's off screen but I would rather it work normally. Any ideas?
Putting out a backspace character won't do anything to the characters already outputted, because they're already there.
The best way to achieve this is usually by setting your console to VT100-compatible (often set by default) and using VT100 escape codes to move around the screen.
For example, I have many HTML tabs to style, they use different classes, and will have different backgrounds. Background images files have names corresponding to class names.
The way I found to do it is yank:
.tab.home {
background: ...home.jpg...
}
then paste, then :s/home/about.
This is to be repeated for a few times. I found that & can be used to repeat last substitute, but only for the same target string. What is the quickest way to repeat a substitute with different target string?
Alternatively, probably there are more efficient ways to do such a thing?
I had a quick play with some vim macro magic and came up with the following idea... I apologise for the length. I thought it best to explain the steps..
First, place the text block you want to repeat into a register (I picked register z), so with the cursor at the beginning of the .tab line I pressed "z3Y (select reg z and yank 3 lines).
Then I entered the series of VIM commands I wanted into the buffer as )"zp:.,%s/home/. (Just press i and type the commands)
This translate to;
) go the end of the current '{}' block,
"zp paste a copy of the text in register z,
.,%s/home/ which has two tricks.
The .,% ensures the substitution applies to everything from the start of the .tab to the end of the closing }, and,
The command is incomplete (ie, does not have a at the end), so vim will prompt me to complete the command.
Note that while %s/// will perform a substitution across every line of the file, it is important to realise that % is an alias for range 1,$. Using 1,% as a range, causes the % to be used as the 'jump to matching parenthesis' operator, resulting in a range from the current line to the end of the % match. (which in this example, is the closing brace in the block)
Then, after placing the cursor on the ) at the beginning of the line, I typed "qy$ which means yank all characters to the end of the line into register q.
This is important, because simply yanking the line with Y will include a carriage return in the register, and will cause the macro to fail.
I then executed the content of register q with #q and I was prompted to complete the s/home/ on the command line.
After typing the replacement text and pressing enter, the pasted block (from register z) appeared in the buffer with the substitutions already applied.
At this point you can repeat the last #qby simple typing ##. You don't even need to move the cursor down to the end of the block because the ) at the start of the macro does that for you.
This effectively reduces the process of yanking the original text, inserting it, and executing two manual replace commands into a simple ##.
You can safely delete the macro string from your edit buffer when done.
This is incredibly vim-ish, and might waste a bit of time getting it right, but it could save you even more when you do.
Vim macro's might be the trick you are looking for.
From the manual, I found :s//new-replacement. Seemed to be too much typing.
Looking for a better answer.
How to turn off word wrap in iTerm2? Is there a specific command to do so or in the preferences? I am trying to avoid having the text run down to the next line. I would rather scroll side to side.
lifted directly from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/210666/115119
Props to #michid
Disable line wrapping:
tput rmam
Enable line wrapping:
tput smam
It appears that iTerm2 does not have the ability to turn off word wrap. There is an open issue (iTerm2 issue #1790) reported to "Provide toggle to turn on/off line wrapping".
The description of that issue reads:
Looks like a conversation was had in the Google Groups about this but no one ever actually filed a feature request.
http://groups.google.com/group/iterm2-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e0f4e9b552d8acd4
In general I don't like having horizontal scrollbars and prefer to have the lines wrap, but there are occasions...such as looking at long stack traces, that I'd rather just have sequentially indented lines line up and just be forced to scroll to the right to expose all the details. To accomplish this task now, I end up making the text incredibly small so I can read stack traces lined up, but even that doesn't always work.
In October, 2014, the creator of iTerm2 commented regarding the feature request to toggle word wrap, "I'd like to do this but it's a lot of work, so feel free to send a pull request, but don't be [a jerk]."
In April, 2015, the milestone for the feature request was changed to "Future Release".
For me, my issue was purely down to the configuration of my PS1 - not what I had originally expected!
The key for me was surrounding the following with any characters that wouldn't be printed as in your prompt - such as encoding colours. Sourced from https://linoxide.com/how-tos/change-bash-prompt-variable-ps1/
\[ This sequence should appear before a sequence of characters that don’t move the cursor (like color escape sequences). This allows bash to calculate word wrapping correctly.
\] This sequence should appear after a sequence of non-printing characters.
I'm trying to figure out how to define a new text editing keystroke in Xcode 4.
To pick one example, Xcode does not appear to have the incredibly useful Emacs join-line function: delete the newline between the current line and the previous line AND ALSO delete any excess indentation whitespace at the beginning of the current line. ie, go in one keystroke from this:
_measurement =
[DPLMeasurement newWithDate:measureDate inManagedObjectContext:[datastore managedObjectContext]];
to this:
_measurement = [DPLMeasurement newWithDate:measureDate inManagedObjectContext:[datastore managedObjectContext]];
and NOT this:
_measurement = [DPLMeasurement newWithDate:measureDate inManagedObjectContext:[datastore managedObjectContext]];
I've seen instructions for user scripts that were apparently for Xcode 3. Does Xcode 4 no longer have anything like this?
Halley's answer to this question does ALMOST what I want:
Xcode duplicate line
Add the following to the plist file, /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IDEKit.framework/Resources/IDETextKeyBindingSet.plist:
Join Previous Line
String
moveToBeginningOfLine:, moveWordRight:, moveWordLeft:, deleteToBeginningOfLine:, deleteBackward:
I say "almost" because it joins the two lines, and deletes whitespace at the beginning of the second line, but if the first line doesn't end with a space it just rams them together and I have to type in the required space. It also deletes punctuation (like open brackets) if they happen to fall at the beginning of the line. So I'm not quite there.