FlashDevelop: CamelCase cursor hopping

As a keyboard person I really like to navigate text fast. I use CRTL-Left and CRTL-Right in any text editor to jump between words. Eclipse added another feature onto the word hopping. It recognizes the CamelCase nature of code. So if I have

myLayoutManager

it will position the cursor at the beginning of my on the first press, on the L of Layout on the second press and on the M of Manager on the thrid press, before jumping to the next word or character. For editing code this is simply great. Saves so much time and single curor movement.

Because I have not found an official name for this behavior I will call it CamelCase cursor hopping (CCCH).

FlashDevelop does not support CCCH, but you can install plugins. Mørkeulv wrote the Wordshifter plugin that enables it in FlashDevelop. Just download the binary from his blog and install it. He even provides the source code for the plugin.

You can customize the jumping behavior by providing your own regular expression and which keys should be used to hop around the code. This way you can reenable the old word jumping and have CCCH along each other.

Thanks for the addon!

Links:

• Mørkeulv Blog: http://m0rkeulv.net/
• WordShifter binary: http://m0rkeulv.net/wp-content/uploads/WordShifter_bin.fdz
• WordShifter source: http://m0rkeulv.net/wp-content/uploads/WordShifter_src.zip?9d7bd4
• FlashDevelop forum with more information: http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9566

FlashDevelop: Curly braces and CodeFormatter

I have been using FlashDevelop lately. It is a great IDE for ActionScript development. But coming from an Eclipse background I had to relearn a lot of keyboard shortcuts. One feature I really like in an IDE is using a code formatter. FlashDevelop contains such a feature and it can be accessed by right clicking in the editor and selecting Refactor->Code Formatter or by using the keyboard shortcut CRTL-Shift-2.

But as always every programmer hates it when the automatic code formatter destroys lovingly crafted indentation. The default behavior of the FlashDevelop formatter is to put the curly braces on a new line. I have struggled a long time with myself over whether to put them on a new line or keep them on the same line. The later option won. And now it just feels awkward to see them on a line of their own.

Of course FlashDevelop provides a solution - a little bit hidden. Go to

Tools -> Program Settings -> CodeFormatter -> BraceStyle

and change it to "OnLine".