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Did you know... how to swap the current anchor position in the editor? - #047

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A will swap the current anchor position.  For whatever reason, when i tested our Emacs Emulations, i used this functionality all the time whenever I wrote test case code.  But i never use it in the default editor settings.  It isn't the keybinding that i have to press.  I think it is just the way the overall experience flows when in emacs.

cursor position before swap:

cursor position before swapping anchor

cursor position after swap:

cursor position after swapping anchor

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Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:00 AM by saraford

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Techy News Blog » Did you know… how to swap the current anchor position in the editor? said:

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# September 26, 2007 6:15 AM

Peter Jeffery said:

Well blow me. I never realised that there was even an emacs key bindings config. How long has that been there ?

I've been an emacs user for 17 years and a visual studio user for 10 years and largely avoid editting in visual studio due to emacs being better in ways that I can't quite put my finger on. This will certainly ease the pain somewhat.

# September 26, 2007 7:26 AM

Chuck said:

Sara,

Just adding my vote for you to please keep these up! While some are a bit esoteric, these are very useful for any and all keyboard jockeys. Down with the mouse! Long live the keyboard! :)

-Chuck

# September 26, 2007 8:59 AM

Jason Haley said:

# September 26, 2007 10:03 AM

Richard Sim said:

Awesome... another shortcut I'd missed that'll be used many times daily. :) I've already bound it to ctrl+shift+a (I never use dual combo shortcuts for my common commands).

On the subject of Emacs emulation, why can I not use Edit.EmacsOtherWindow or Edit.EmacsSplitVertical (and other similar commands)? In the Immediate window I simply get the error "Command "blah" is not available.", and binding to a key does nothing also.

# September 26, 2007 11:59 AM

Martin Brice said:

HOLY CRAP!  I was looking for this exacly last week!  Thank you!

# September 27, 2007 9:40 AM

Jay R. Wren said:

I'd like to echo Richards question.

EmacsOtherWindow doesn't seem to work for me.

# October 12, 2007 2:13 PM

Jay R. Wren said:

I take it all back.  My guess is that Emacs or Brief named commands dont' work unless I am in that mode.

Window.NextSplitPane is the command for what I was looking.

# October 12, 2007 2:16 PM

Visual Studio 2008 ワンポイント said:

Ctrl + K 、 Ctrl + A キーを押すと、現在のアンカー位置が切り替わります。Emacs エミュレーションをテストしていたとき、私はどういうわけか、テスト ケースのコードを書くたびにこの機能を使い続けていました。エディタの既定の設定では使ったことがありませんでした。これは本来、私が使用するようなキー

# June 23, 2008 1:24 AM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A изменяет позицию курсора. Я использовала эту функцию по любому поводу, когда тестировала

# October 13, 2008 8:33 AM
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