Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

Matthew — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:04:09 GMT

Here's a fewthat I use every day...

These are chord combinations, so hold the ctrl key down for both...

CTRL+K, C - applies comments to a selected block of code.

CTRL+K, U - remove (un-comments) a selected block of code.

CTRL+K, K - toggles a bookmark for the line the cursor is on.

CTRL+K, N - moves the cursor to the next bookmark, I cannot remember what moves to a previous bookmark right now.

CTRL+K, S - brings up the "surround with" list for the selected block of code. It's useful for selecting a block of code and putting it inside of a try/catch block, or conditional block, etc.

-- Matthew

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

feiyim — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:40:35 GMT

hey sara,

thats a nice one you got for us.i knew it existed but never gave a damn about it nor knew its efficacy.Now that you have alerted me and its preety good, am gonna try it.thanks

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

joe brownie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:47:24 GMT

iam trying to hack on warrock (a computer game) but i cant find out how

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

Cp6uja — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:56:30 GMT

WOW! That's what i call a genious feature!!

This blowed my socks off my feet!

You stupid americans...

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

Will SQL for Food — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:53:35 GMT

I'm inclined to think this is OS level functionality rather than VS or Word specific - I've tried it successfully on third party apps.

Does that nullify it from the Stump Sara game since it's below VS core?

Also:

Clicking and holding the left mouse button for a second or two activates the same feature.

And thanks for the ALT+click for selecting a rectangular area - that's nice! I'm sure to find that useful in SQL Server, my bread and butter.

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

Anthony Wykle — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:27:06 GMT

I believe that with a little research one would find that both the <ctrl> / <alt> - left drag and the right drag tricks are actually a part of the windows common controls edit box functionality. I don't know about the right drag, but I know the modified left drag tricks have been a part of the standard windows UI since at least Win95.

Side note: the right-drag trick doesn't work in the textarea implementation provided by MSIE 8.0. Maybe Microsoft should consider making the right-drag standard if it isn't?

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Rwg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:14:42 GMT

Due to the simplicity of the answer I'm not sure if this is what you wanted to hear?

1) Select multiple lines of text with the usual mouse drag, or the keyboard using SHIFT+up or down arrow keys

2) Press TAB to indent or shift+TAB to unindent the selection

Incidentally, you can also select a block (square) region of text in Visual studio or Word by holding the ALT key down then dragging over the area with the mouse.

Indenting

e34m5 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:04:33 GMT

Is there a way to highlight multiple lines of code and then indenting or unindent all at the same time.

re: Did you know... You can Right-drag code to do a Move or a Copy? - #170

Søren Pedersen — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:46:50 GMT

Many text-editing "places" in Windows does this, and you can even do it with items in folders or on the desktop.

I discovered this one myself by accident; a book fell on my mouse's right button and caused it to slide slightly, revealing this little popup menu...!

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Kyralessa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:50:29 GMT

Oogh. A lot of the programmers I know would be better off if copying code were made harder, not easier. :)