Vscode: how to jump over symbol?

Created on 26 Jun 2016 · 14Comments · Source: microsoft/vscode

VSCode Version: 1.2.1
OS Version: fedora 21

Steps to Reproduce:

how to jump over symbol? like bracket, quotation

editor feature-request

Source

Luncher

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Most helpful comment

What the OP means is the ability to jump out/over the closing character (", ', ), ], }).

Try
var test = [{'key1': "value1", 'key2': "value2"}];
right arrow is the only way to jump over the closing character.
I'd like a more convenient key (or ability to define a more convenient key) to do that.

All major editors offer this ability:
Atom (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30274597/jump-over-end-parenthesis-bracket-quotation-in-atom-editor-with-tab)
Sublime (via key bindings)
Brackets (via tab-out plugin)

there is already an extension
https://github.com/albertromkes/tabout
seems to work great but conflicts with code snippet code stops.
It would be nice to be able to define a different key or key combination.

cjr8020 on 20 Aug 2016

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All 14 comments

@alexandrudima assuming he is talking about word navigation in the editor.

dbaeumer on 27 Jun 2016

what ?

Luncher on 27 Jun 2016

@Luncher I am sorry I don't understand what you mean. Can you please explain more specifically your question?

alexdima on 28 Jun 2016

@alexandrudima thanks for you reply.
I mean when i input brackets auto completed, then enter other characters. When I entered the end , how the cursor out of the brackets it ?

input:
(abc + tab

I hope to achieve:

(abc) cursor here

Luncher on 29 Jun 2016

I think that the question here is: After entering a symbol that is a part of opening/closing symbols pair (opening/closing bracket, quotation marks, etc.), and with the autoComplete option on, which button to use to get your cursor out of that symbol pair. Eg. you enter an opening bracket, the closing bracket gets autocompleted, but your cursor stays between them. Which button will let you move the cursor to the right of the closing bracket.
For now, that's only the right arrow I think. @Luncher is saying that it should be possible with tab button. It would be great in my opinion, just like in Visual Studio. I'm pretty surprised it isn't available in VSCode, maybe I just didn't find it...

dbettini on 7 Jul 2016

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What the OP means is the ability to jump out/over the closing character (", ', ), ], }).

cjr8020 on 20 Aug 2016

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The mentioned TabOut extension also suffers from being a tab-in instead of only a tab-out. This interferes with actually trying to tab space your code. So if you are at the start of a line that begins with a quote, instead of adding a tab space, it brings you into the quote.

joshpeng on 23 Oct 2016

@cjr8020 You are the sole master of the keyboard shortcuts :). You can change any keybinding you wish. e.g.:

{ "command": "-tabout" },
{ "key": "ctrl+t", "command": "-tabout" }

alexdima on 27 Oct 2016

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If it helps, you can use ctrl + F to substitute the right arrow key in any situation without editing the init Script.

AveryElyon on 13 Feb 2017

I tried TabOut but remapping it to some other command such as ctrl+t to avoid breaking snippet expansion it's basically the same as just hitting ctrl+f. So basically I used the same approach I was using in Sublime to solve this with the following key bindings:

  {
    "key": "shift+'",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": { "snippet": "\"$1\"$0" }
  },
  {
    "key": "`",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": { "snippet": "`$1`$0" }
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+9",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": { "snippet": "($1)$0" }
  },
  {
    "key": "[",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": { "snippet": "[$1]$0" }
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+[",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": { "snippet": "{$1}$0" }
  }