ThoughtShapes - Velocity - Comments

It's coming.

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:16:14 -0500

It's coming.

Another timesaver for

Rjae Easton — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:51:00 -0400

Another timesaver for Subversion is opening a command window and issuing an update in one run command.

cmd /k "cd \archives\<working directory> && svn update"

Configure Debugger

Rjae Easton — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:19:13 -0400

Configure Debugger Exceptions: Ctrl + Alt + E

Rarely used, but those are the ones you forget until you need them.

I took a look at

Steve Seymour — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:58:54 -0400

I took a look at SlickEdit’s Gadgets…all I’ve played around with is the CommandSpy tool, but it works very well and doesn’t slow anything down at all.

Hey slushpuppy, I’ll take

Steve Seymour — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:58:18 -0400

Hey slushpuppy,

I’ll take a look at gadgets sometime tomorrow. I bought slickedit a while back and love it (I use it all the time for diffs and “beautifying” different types of code such as HTML), so I assume gadgets is worth taking a peek at, too.

Thanks.

Hi Dave, What was NBC’s

Rjae Easton — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:57:50 -0400

Hi Dave,

What was NBC’s slogan when Friends went to all-repeats…it went something like, “If you haven’t see it, it’s new to you!” Steve and I always reinforce with each other that disciplined verbosity is best. As long as you take the time to shape your thoughts ;-), they are guaranteed to be useful. So, thank you for the list.

Have you ever noticed that the open-document-switching dialog lists all tab-groups? You can quickly switch to a document in another tab group by using Ctrl+Tab (as you mentioned) and with a little right-hand English, press left/right cursor key. The document selector moves to the next tab-group.

Hi massybird, Thanks for

Rjae Easton — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:57:19 -0400

Hi massybird,

Thanks for confirming the custom keyboard mapping. I can tell that you like your tools to be tuned to the way you work. You raise an interesting point: should the most desirable key combinations be reserved for the most common actions you perform?

I think it makes perfect sense to use whatever combinations support your velocity best. Where I tend to draw the line is when a tool like ReSharper introduces a slew of keyboard mappings. ReSharper has such a huge affect on my velocity that I let it be administrative over the keyboard mappings.

Funny, Alt+Q reminds me of one of the best editors I ever used: epsilon - a throwback to the late 80’s.

Keep the input coming; we’re all benefiting.

One more thing, someone

slushpuppy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:56:42 -0400

One more thing, someone named Rob Caron has posted some really nice keybinding charts at http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2007/01/29/1552795.aspx. Definitely worth checking out.

If you’re into keyboard

slushpuppy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:55:59 -0400

If you’re into keyboard shortcuts, you should check out this free tool called Gadgets. It’s got one thing in there that shows you any command you run and shows the keyboard shortcut for it. I use it for figuring out the keyboard shortcuts for toolbar buttons I use a lot. www.slickedit.com/gadgets

Some of these may be obvious

Dave Reed — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:54:53 -0400

Some of these may be obvious for VS but perhaps not to some. I couldn’t live without these…

Ctrl-Shift-B: build
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C/U: comment/uncomment selection
Ctrl-Space: auto completion list or auto completes if theres only 1 match, useful for fixing the casing of an identifier. For example if you have string.empty and hit ctrl-space it becomes string.Empty.
Ctrl-Tab / Shift-Ctrl-Tab: cycle through open documents Alt-Tab style
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-S: surround selection with something like region, foreach, if, class, etc… awesome shortcut
F12: go to definition

Hey Rjae, yes, it’s custom

massybird — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:54:21 -0400

Hey Rjae, yes, it’s custom mapping that I use. I prefer shortcuts that do not require more than one pair of keystrokes, hence Alt + Q. In addition, you only have to use your left hand for this shortcut. I guess any keystroke combination will become second-nature after repeated use…

Thanks massybird. I am not

Rjae Easton — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:53:47 -0400

Thanks massybird. I am not familiar with Alt+Q - is that a custom mapping that you use? I am familiar with Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O for CollapseToDefinitions. Another helpful key is Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M to expand/collapse the local scope region.

Your shortcuts are welcome here.

Very useful shortcuts. One I

massybird — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:52:21 -0400

Very useful shortcuts. One I cannot possibly live without is Edit.CollapsetoDefinitions: Alt+Q. It saves me time collapsing method, etc. definitions.