Tabout editing capability

[gboy]

The Visual Studio editor, in a regular C/C++ project, has a convenient keyboard capability where, for example, you type printf(” the editor auto-completes by adding the matching “) (i.e. close-quote and close-parentheses).  However, then it provides the additional functionality where, if, after typing in your entry between the quote-symbols, you hit ‘Tab’, it jumps just between the close-quote and the close-parentheses, to allow you to enter any variables needed.  And then allows you to hit ‘Tab’ again to jump just outside the close-parentheses so you can, normally, a semi-colon to end the line.  I believe this is refererred to as the ‘TabOut’ functionality.

I’m noticing that when I am working in a VisualGDB project in Visual Studio, this TabOut capability is not enabled by default. Is there a setting I can specify to enable TabOut?

 

• This topic was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by gboy.

[support]

Hi,

VisualGDB handles the bracket and quote pairing independently from Visual Studio, and did not implement the tabout behavior (typing ‘)’ or ‘”‘ would successfully skip over a matching auto-inserted bracket though).

That said, it looks like a useful feature, so we have added it to this build: VisualGDB-6.0.4.5081.msi

You can enable it via Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++(VisualGDB)->Advanced->Typing Assist->Tab out of brackets (enabled by default).

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