Auto-completing brackets and quotations

Cerpin Taxt · Dec 12, 2005#12005-12-12T06:37+00:00

Hello all.
I'm demoing UEStudio, and I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to do some simple things.

When I type a left bracket, left parenthesis, or single/double quote, I'd like it to type the opposing symbol and put my caret in the center of the two, like this:

Typing { causes {|} to occur. It would seem that the Advanced - Configuration setting Auto complete One-Symbol List would do this, but checking it does not cause it to work.Is there something I can place in my configuration file to allow this to work?

Mofi · Jan 06, 2006#22006-01-06T15:42+00:00

Instead of using auto-complete, you can do this with a set of macros saved in a macro file which is automatically loaded during start of UEStudio. For example the macro for { could be:

Macro property:

Show cancel dialog for this macro: unchecked
Continue if search string not found: unchecked
Hotkey: Alt+Ctrl+7

Alt+Ctrl+7 must be entered for { on a German keyboard. Simply press the key for { in the macro property dialog to get correct keyboard code for your keyboard.

Macro code:

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IfExtIs "c"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "cpp"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "h"
"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW
ExitMacro
EndIf
"{"

I mainly use this technique for inserting German umlauts according to extension. For example for Ä:

Show cancel dialog for this macro: unchecked
Continue if search string not found: unchecked
Hotkey: Shift+Ä

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IfExtIs "html"
"&Auml;"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "htm"
"&Auml;"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "asm"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "c"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "h"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
IfExtIs "inc"
"Ae"
ExitMacro
EndIf
"Ä"

Update 1: UEStudio has at Advanced - Configuration - IDE - IntelliTips - Miscellaneous some settings for auto-completion of brackets. So no macro is needed for automatic completion of { or [ or {.

Update 2: The settings related to auto-completion of brackets moved from Advanced - Configuration - IDE - IntelliTips - Miscellaneous to Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Editor - Braces / strings with UEStudio v16.20 because of this feature became available also in UltraEdit for Windows v23.20.

cocentaina · Jan 18, 2006#32006-01-18T19:54+00:00

This is great. These are my macros for completion of the following chars: ", ', (, [, {.

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""""
Key LEFT ARROW

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"''"
Key LEFT ARROW

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"()"
Key LEFT ARROW

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"[]"
Key LEFT ARROW

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"{}"
Key LEFT ARROW

Hotkeys are ", ', (, [, {. Very simple, very useful.

Now the only thing I need is snippet expansion like in TextMate - expand a keyword+<tab> to a snippet. For example, when you type

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inc<tab>

you get:

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#include "|.h"

Mofi · Jan 18, 2006#42006-01-18T20:57+00:00

Similar to "snippet expansion" is Auto Completion which can be by default activated with Ctrl+Space after entering for example #inc. See help of UEStudio about Auto Completion. But it is not possible to insert a phrase with auto completion and set the cursor automatically anywhere inside the phrase. The cursor will be always at the end of the auto-completed string. Using templates and macros could help here also for certain phrases which are used very often.