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Appearance #
- Appearance: Darcula
- Color Scheme: Colorful Darcula
- Color Scheme Font: 24 for 13-inch display
Keymaps #
I use Sublime Text keymap with a few tweaks:
- Basic completion: Tab. With the auto formatting function, I do not need to use Tab to indent. Thus Tab can be used to trigger completion. And when the completions pop up, I can press Tab again to confirm the completion candicate, very convinient.
- Find Action: the ultimate keyboard shortcut deserves F1 (inspired by vscode)
- Rename variable name: F2 is used for renaming file names in most file managers and renaming variables in vscode. For consistency, I also removed
Ctrl+F2 for toggling bookmark, and bind Ctrl+F2 to introducing variables, Shift+F2 to inline variables, Ctrl+Shift+F2 to introduce constants, Alt+F2 to introduce functions (extract methods).
- Go to declaration or usage: F4 since this powerful navigation includes the function of "go to source".
- Quick documentation: F5 is near F4 (jump to source). I have poor memory and check documentation and source frequently.
- Go to symbol: F6 goes to address bar in web browsers. Thus I use F6 to navigate. And F6 is near F5 (go to documentation) and F4 (go to source). The default three-key combo (ctrl+shift+R) is too hard to remember and type.
- Find usage: F7 since it is consistent with
Ctrl+F7 (find usage in current file). Although F4 can go find usages at the declaration , sometimes I still want to find other usages when not at the declaration.
- Last edit location: F8 since it is near F9.
- Toggle bookmark: F9 inspired by Yin Wang. I also set alt/ctrl/shift + F9 to show/next/previous bookmark. P.S. F2 - F9 are all used for navigation.
- Terminal: F12 since I use terminal a lot and already bind go to declaration/usage to F4. Why not keep the default? Because I want all navigation related actions are in nearby keys (F2-F9). Also, F12 in web browser opens the console.
- Complete Current Statement: C-Enter since I used it far more frequently than inserting a new line.
Fn #
I bind frequently used actions to F keys, so they are easier to reach.
The "Sublime" field refers to the default keyboard shorts for the real Sublime Text editor, not the Sublime Text keymap for JetBrains IDEs.
| Key |
Default |
Sublime |
Me |
Rationale |
| F1 |
help |
n/a |
find action |
inspired by vscode |
| F2 |
next error |
next bookmark |
refactor: rename |
inspired by file managers and vscode |
| F3 |
next occurrence |
next occurrence |
next occurrence |
convention |
| F4 |
jump to source |
next results in find all |
go to declaration/usage |
more powerful than "jump to source" |
| F5 |
refactor: copy |
n/a |
quick documentation |
near F4 |
| F6 |
refactor: move |
toggle spell check |
go to symbol |
inspired by go to address bar in web browser |
| F7 |
debug: step into |
build |
find usage |
consistent with Ctrl+F7 (find usage in current file) |
| F8 |
debug: step out |
n/a |
last edit location |
near F9 |
| F9 |
debug: resume |
sort lines |
toggle bookmark |
Inspired by Yin Wang. |
| F10 |
menu (os) |
menu (os) |
menu (os) |
|
| F11 |
toggle fullscreen |
toggle fullscreen |
toggle fullscreen |
convention |
| F12 |
go to declaration/usage |
go to definition |
terminal |
Already bind go to declaration/usage to F4 and inspired by web browser (F12 for the console). |
Other Tweaks #
- Editor > General > Code Completion: enable "sort completion suggestions based on machine learning".
- Tools > Terminal > Application Settings > Shell path: change from
/bin/bash to /usr/bin/fish.