Turn off auto indent in sublime text 2, but - coldfusion

Right now in sublime text 2 when I start an if statement in Coldfusion and hit enter it will automatically indent the next line like this:
<cfif this eq that>
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When I turn auto indent off it will leave the cursor back at the far left, which would be great, but a lot of times my code is already indented:
<cfif this eq that>
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What I want is it to leave it where it is currently indented to, no more, no less. Like this:
<cfif this eq that>
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Any suggestions? Thanks!

There may be other ways to make this work for you.
But, you can edit the regex string in ColdFusion.tmPreferences file under
<key>increaseIndentPattern</key>
Just add cfif and cfelse to the list
|link|meta|param|cfif|cfelse
When there is an update to the ColdFusion package though, you may have to edit again.
Edit: Make sure to update the package to the latest version. The single line tags like cfargument should not indent as expected in the updated version.

Although what you would like does not seem to be possible at the moment, see ST2 forum (maybe you posted that?)
A slightly absurd workaround that may work for you, (seems to work for me). Go to View>Syntax>Java now the auto indention should do as you please - you may lose bracket tag matching (+other things?), syntax checking may be a bit nuts (you can always flip back if necessary, try other syntax stuff), and the colour scheme will change a little, but it seems to work.

Take a look at the settings in Sublime, there is one called 'smart_indent'.
The description for this setting is:
Makes auto indent a little smarter, e.g., by indenting the next line
after an if statement in C. Requires auto_indent to be enabled.
Found some more info in the Sublime Documentation.

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how to do vi search and replace within a range in sublime text

I enabled vintage mode on sublime text.. but there are some important vim commands that are lacking.. so let's say I want to do a search and replace like so
:10,25s/searchedText/toReplaceText/gc
so I wanna search searchedText and replace it with toReplaceText from lines 10 to 25 and be prompted every time (ie yes/no)..
how do I do this with Sublime Text? everytime I hit : it gives me this funny menu.. any way around that?
If you so much would like to see vim in action, try the other way around; ie enable sublime stuff in vim.
Here are 2 links that might come in handy:
subvim and vim multiple cursors (Which is one amazing feature in sublime that lacks in native vim).
Hope that gets you creative ;)
Unfortunately vintage mode does not understand ranges. The best way I know how to do this is with incremental search:
highlight the first occurrence of searchedText on line 10
hit cmnd/ctrl D to have Sublime find the next occurence
If you you want the next occurrence ignored, hit cmnd/ctrl K
Once you have highlighted all the occurrences, you can replace them all at once, as Sublime has left cursors behind on every occurrence you opted in on.
VintageEx gives you a Vim-like command-line where you can at least perform substitutions. Well, that's how far I went when trying it. I don't know how extended the subset of Vim commands it implements is but I'd guess that it's not as large as the original and, like with Vintage, probably different and unsettling enough to keep a relatively experienced Vimmer out.
Anyway, I just tried it again and indeed you can more or less do the kind of substitution you are looking for, which instantly makes ST a lot more useful:
:3,5s/foo/bar/g
:.,5s/bar/foo/g
:,5/foo/bar/g
:,+5/bar/foo/g
Unfortunately, it doesn't support the /c flag.
a plugin named vintageous offers more features including search function. It's available in package control
although this question is answered.. i figured this would add some value
the full functionality of vi search/replace is possible with the ruby mine IDE, once you install the ideavim plugin. The idea is perfect for ruby on rails by the way.

PhpStorm: any solution for 4 annoying problems?

I'm a rather happy PhpStorm user, but there are a few things that really annoy me, but I'm not a settings expert and wish there is a solution for them (editing PHP files) :
Navigation
Often in the editor, one want to go back to where the cursor was 100 lines above etc... And in PhpStorm Back Alt-Shift-Left and Forward Alt-Shift-Right do this - but they follow an algorithm that is beyond me: it definitely misses "steps" (e.g. from line 500 go to line 300 using keys like arrows or -even worse- page-up/down, then Alt-Shift-Left doesn't bring you back to line 500)
=> Is there a way to refine the conditions that drive the behavior of Back and Forward?
Indentation
Is there a way to refine the indentor behavior? For instance
$a = array('X' => 'Something',
'Y' => 'Something else',[RETURN]
^ ^
now there
like in Emacs the cursor would go there right under the first quote after the spaces (and not at now where PS goes)?
=> Is a regexp (or something else) able to refine the behavior of the indentor, Not only for this very specific case but for the behavior in general?
(Not mentioning another problem when Shift-Inserting where the indent is often unreliable)
Quotes (automatic)
I don't want to disable the automatic quoting feature as it is sometimes convenient, but it seems the algorithm doesn't parse correctly the environment where the " or ' is inserted (don't have an example right now but at times it was annoying, like inserting 2 " unexpectedly while only one is required, deleting one will actually delete the 2 (normal because they were inserted automatically... but I needed 1 only!) so have in this case to trick PhpStorm to force a 1 ").
=> Is there a regexp or similar to control the quoting behavior?
Select via Shift-Arrow (for instance, to delete...)
Almost forgot: PhpStorm remembers at which column the cursor is when navigating Up and Down. Fine. But when one want to select (using Shift and Up/Down Arrows) from beginning of line it is usually to select lines. Not a line-to-where-cursor-was-earlier. An example will explain better: * is where the cursor is [beginning of line 3], % is where the cursor was [middle of line 2]
1. $x = 'string';
2. $y = %'string';
3.*
doing Shift-Up will select (all s)
1. $x = 'string';
2. $y = *sssssssss
3.
while in the specific case of a selection, it should select that:
1. $x = 'string';
2.*sssssssssssssssss
3.
not sure there is a way to configure that though - just in case there is?
Thanks
Oh well...
1) Is there a way to refine the conditions that drive the behavior of Back and Forward?
No. Maybe (just maybe) it takes into consideration what you were doing at that location (even if you done nothing, then maybe how long the pause was). But mainly it looks at editing activity, navigation events (jump to declaration/implementation etc).
2) Is a regexp (or something else) able to refine the behavior of the indentor, Not only for this very specific case but for the behavior in general?
RegEx -- definitely no. This question is not clear for me anyway -- are you talking about formatting or navigation? If first -- then all currently existing settings are in "Settings | Code Style". If second -- then check "Settings | Editor | Smart keys" -- maybe they will help.
Otherwise -- please record some screencast/bunch of screenshots for current and desired behaviour and submit it as a new ticket to the Issue Tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI
3) Is there a regexp or similar to control the quoting behavior?
No. You explanation is not clear enough. I suggest the same as for #2 -- get a code example and submit it as a new ticket to the Issue Tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI . This way it may gets implemented/fixed for next version
4) not sure there is a way to configure that though - just in case there is?
Don't know. I'm also facing this usability issue and would like to know workaround. The way I'm using it -- pressing "Home" before (or during/after) making the selection (not ideal "solution" as it is still annoying to do so, but works). Alternatively you can use mouse to select the lines (use it over editor gutter area -- where the line numbers are).
If selection is to just delete/duplicate the line -- then there are shortcuts just for that.
Regarding quotes, in cases when you just want the one quote, hit del instead of backspace after typing ".
I've some qualms about the indentation (and code (re)formatting in general) too, but it's that it changes from release to release, there's not much you can do about it though...
Re: selection - in your case you can just hit Home while still holding shift. It never even registered to me as unexpected behavior.

Highlighting Javascript Inline Block Comments in Vim

Background
I use JScript (Microsoft's ECMAScript implementation) for a lot of Windows system administration needs. This means I use a lot of ActiveX (Automated COM) objects. The methods of these objects often expect Number or Boolean arguments. For example:
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", true);
a.WriteLine("This is a test.");
a.Close();
(CreateTextFile Method on MSDN)
On the second line you see that the second argument is one that I'm talking about. A Boolean of "true" doesn't really describe how the method's behavior will change. This isn't a problem for me, but my automation-shy coworkers are easily spooked. Not knowing what an argument does spooks them. Unfortunately a long list of constants (not real constants, of course, since current JScript versions don't support them) will also spook them. So I've taken to documenting some of these basic function calls with inline block comments. The second line in the above example would be written as such:
var a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", /*overwrite*/ true, /*unicode*/ false);
That ends up with a small syntax highlighting dilemma for me, though. I like my comments highlighted vibrantly; both block and line comments. These tiny inline block comments mean little to me, personally, however. I'd like to highlight those particular comments in a more muted fashion (light gray on white, for example). Which brings me to my dilemma.
Dilemma
I'd like to override the default syntax highlighting for block comments when both the beginning and end marks are on the same line. Ideally this is done solely in my vimrc file, and not in a superseding personal copy of the javascript.vim syntax. My initial attempt is pathetic:
hi inlineComment guifg=#bbbbbb
match inlineComment "\/\*.*\*\/"
Straight away you can see the first problem with this regular expression pattern is that it's a greedy search. It's going to match from the first "/*" to the last "*/" on the line, meaning everything between two inline block comments will get this highlight style as well. I can fix that, but I'm really not sure how to deal with my second concern.
Comments can't be defined inside of String literals in ECMAScript. So this syntax highlighting will override String highlighting as well. I've never had a problem with this in system administration scripts, but it does often bite me when I'm examining the source of many javascript libraries intended for browsers (less.js for example).
What regex pattern, syntax definition, or other solution would the amazing StackOverflow community recommend to restore my vimrc zen?
I'm not sure, but from your description it sounds like you don't need a new syntax definition. Vim syntax files usually let you override a particular syntax item with your own choice of highlighting. In this case, the item you want is called javaScriptComment, so a command like this will set its highlighting:-
hi javaScriptComment guifg=#bbbbbb
but you have to do this in your .vimrc file (or somewhere that's sourced from there), so it's evaluated before the syntax file. The syntax file uses the highlight default command, so the syntax file's choice of highlighting only affects syntax items with no highlighting set. See :help :hi-default for more details on that. BTW, it only works on Vim 5.8 and later.
The above command will change all inline /* */ comments, and leave // line comments with their default setting, because line comments are a different syntax item (javaScriptLineComment). You can find the names of all these groups by looking at the javascript.vim file. (The easiest way to do this is :e $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/javascript.vim .)
If you only want to change some inline comments, it's a little more complicated, but still easy to see what to do by looking at javascript.vim . If you do that, you can see that block comments are defined like this:-
syn region javaScriptComment start="/\*" end="\*/" contains=#Spell,javaScriptCommentTodo
See that you can use separate regexes for begin and end markers: you don't need to worry about matching the stuff in between with non-greedy quantifiers, or anything like that. To have a syntax item that works similarly but only on one line, try adding the oneline option (:h :syn-oneline for more details):-
syn region myOnelineComment start="/\*" end="\*/" oneline
I've removed the two contains groups because (1) if you're only using it for parameter names, you probably don't want spell-checking turned on inside these comments, and (2) contained sections that aren't oneline override the oneline in the container region, so you would still match all TODO comments with this region.
You can define this new kind of comment region in your .vimrc, and set the highlighting how you like: it looks like you already know how to do that, so I won't go into more details on that. I haven't tried out this particular example, so you may still need a bit of fiddling to make it work. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
Why don't you simply add a comment line above the call?
I think that
// fso.CreateTextFile(filename:String, overwrite:Boolean, unicode:Boolean)
var a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", true, false);
is a lot more readable and informative than
var a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", /*overwrite*/ true, /*unicode*/ false);

Making Dreamweaver more like Notepad++

I'm moving to Dreamweaver from Notepad++, and while Dw does have many better features than Notepad++, there are a few that I'm really missing.
Is there a way to make the "Home" key on the keyboard take you to the front of where the code starts, instead of the very front of the line? In Notepad++ this is how it works by default, and I don't know why anyone would want to go to the very front of the line instead of the front of the code. I use tabbing to keep it more organized, so this feature is really important to me.
How do I duplicate a line in Dw? In Notepad++ I can select the line and press ctrl + d and it automatically duplicated the code. This is awesome for something like a gallery or a table where I don't want to have to type out every line because it's so similar.
Less important, as I don't use this that often, but can you vertically select in Dw? In Notepad++ you can hold down alt and select lines vertically. Ex:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12147973/vert-select.jpg
Thanks in advance.
For #2, check out the Code Extras extension for Dreamweaver
No Longer works in DW5.5; Try here - http://yoropan.com/en/archives/544
I was also wanting some of this features... I discovered that, at least in CS6, #2 is already in Dreamweaver, but the shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Down ou Up, depending on the direction that you wanna duplicate the code.
Note that I had to disable the shortcut that turns your screen view for that to work. (It's an intel default, press Ctrl+Alt+f12 to open the options)
And tãa dãaa... IT WORKS! :D
I want to say one thing different. My Dreamweaver theme (Users who use Dreamweaver after use Notepad++). Download Dreamweaver.xml
"Dreamweaver.xml" file is in here for windows: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\themes\Dreamweaver.xml
The answer to #1 = Ctrl+Home in anything in windows will take you to the absolute start of the documents, same as Ctrl+End, Home and End to start and finish of lines, Ctrl+Left or Right arrow to jump entire words...
I too am on the quest for duplicating lines in DW. #3 your image no longer shows.
If I want to duplicated a line I click on the line number, then CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. Is that what you're looking for or am I being simple?

Vim different textwidth for multiline C comments?

In our C++ code base we keep 99 column lines but 79-some-odd column multiline comments. Is there a good strategy to do this automagically? I assume the modes are already known because of smart comment line-joining and leading * insertion.
Apparently both code and comments use the same textwidth option. As far as I can see, the only trick is to set this option dynamically:
:autocmd CursorMoved,CursorMovedI * :if match(getline(.), '^\s*\*') == 0 | :setlocal textwidth=79 | :else | :setlocal textwidth=99 | :endif
Here the critical part is detecting when we are in a comment. If you only format comments this way:
/*
* my comment
*/
my regex should work... unless you have lines in the code starting with * (which I guess can happen in C, less frequently in C++). If you use comments like this:
// comment line 1
// comment line 2
the regex is even simpler to write. If you want to cover all possible situations, including corner cases, well... I guess the best thing would be to define a separate detection function and call that from the :autocmd instead of match().
I came across this same problem and think that I have found a suitable solution.
What I wanted my comments to word wrap so that when I'm typing I don't have to worry about formating text. This works well with comment text. But I wasn't comfortable with having vim format my code. So I wanted vim to highlight every thing in red after x column.
To do this with only cpp code you would add the following to your ~/.vim/ftdetect/cpp.vim file.
set textwidth=79
match ErrorMsg '\%>99v.\+'
note: You may have to create the file and folders if they don't exist.
If you have problems with this make sure that you have formatoptions set to:
formatoptions=croql
You can see this by running :set formatoptions inside of vim.