keyboard-shortcuts

Alt + F7 keyboard shortcut does not work on a netbook.

I am running Android 2.2 on a netbook (Android x86). The keyboard shortcut, Alt + F7 doesn't lead me back to graphics screen ( GUI) from the console. Does anyone know any alternative to this shortcut ? ...

Keystroke/hotkey/shortcut to expand Area/Iteration path in TFS?

Hi all, I'm doing a lot of work with work items, and while I'm using Tfs 2010 aka VsAlm 2010, this has been something that's bugged me ever since the first release of Tfs. When creating new work items, I don't really want to switch back and forth between my mouse and keybaord 203948203984 times; I'd really much rather just enter it enti...

Curly Braces annoyance in Windows 7 on MacBook

Hey guys! I'm just starting out writing C# in MS Visual Studio on a Win 7 partition on my MacBook Pro. Thing is, as a Java programmer I'm used to pressing Alt + Shift + 8/9 (in OSX) to make curly braces. In Win 7 I need to press Alt + 7/0. (Swedish keyboard layout) Needless to say, if I'm gonna write in both OS's it's gonna get really a...

Determining Host Key

How do I determine the host key of the keyboard of my system ? ...

Auto-generate a try catch block in visual studio 2010

Hey guys, Anyone know if there is a keystroke shortcut or option to autogenerate a try/catch block around a statement in Visual Studio 2010? I can see what exceptions are thrown if I look at the overlay documentation when I hover over a statement. I'd like to right click -> generate try/catch, as it would save a lot of time in handling ...

Subversion URL shortcuts

There is one shortcut I know of, ^ which means "the base URL of the current repository". I know there a bunch of other ones introduced with Subversion 1.6. What are they? ...

Deleting / changing searched text in Vim

When I do an interactive search for some pattern, each time I hit n, I get the next result. How do I delete / change each result that I come to? Ideally, what I'm looking for would work like this: I hit n to get the search result, and then magic command to highlight that result in visual mode, and then I can do d or c to delete or chang...

How does the search command `//` work in Vim?

After searching for something, if you hit //, you seem to get the next result. How is this different from n? How should you use it? What does //e match, and what other options are there for //? ...

How do Vim's Control-O and Control-I work?

What do they do, and how do you use them? Any tips / tricks would also be appreciated. ...

bash - first argument of the previous command

Hi I know that ESC DOT gives you the last argument of the last command. But I'm interested in first argument of the last command. Is there a key binding to do so? On the same lines, is there a generic way of getting nth argument from last command. (I know that in a bash script you can use $0, $1 etc., but these don't work on commandli...

Keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio to select the Current Block

In VB Classic, VBA and also in Visual Studio you can dbl click close to the left hand margin of a block of code and it will select the whole of the current block (sub, function etc). In Visual Studio this clickable area is adjacent to the line numbers on the left. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will do the same job? that is, select t...

How to remove shortcut command Ctrl+E in Management Studio

I'm really frustrated by this shortcut because I commonly use both Emacs and Management Studio for different projects. However accidentally pressing CTRL+E in MS and expecting cursor to move to the end of the line, which it does in my Emacs configuration, can be really bad in MS if you are programming modifications to a database and, say...

Autogenerate code with shortcuts in Visual Studio?

I noticed that when you type ctor then hit the tab button, VS will automatically create a constructor skeleton for you. I also saw in a screencast, the speaker could generate, among other things :Console.WriteLine, and also skeleton methods for all interface methods using keyboard shortcuts. However, I couldn't get what keyword he wa...