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Zack
Zack

Reputation: 4385

Is it possible in Eclipse to highlight a statement, and then press quotes/etc.. to "wrap" the highlighted text in the character (like in SublimeText)?

I'm coming from Sublime Text to Eclipse. One of my favorite feature of ST is highlighting a piece of text, and then being able to wrap it in quotations or parenthesis by pressing the appropriate key.

That probably poorly explains the functionality, so here's a gif example:

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So, as you can see, if you highlight a piece of text, and then, in this example, press ( it will wrap the highlighted text in parenthesis.

When I try this in Eclipse, highlighting the text, and then pressing ( simply replaces what I highlighted rather than wrapping it up.

Is there a way to get this functionality inside of Eclipse?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 2183

Answers (3)

Jake Zeitz
Jake Zeitz

Reputation: 2574

Highlight the text, cut it (ctrl x), type quotes, paste text (ctrl v).

It's kind of a lame solution but it's faster since eclipse creates both quotes and puts cursor in the middle.

Upvotes: 3

maggix
maggix

Reputation: 3278

I haven't found a way to to obtain exactly this, but if you want to surround the text with quotes, here's how to. Go to: 

Source -> Surround With...  -> Configure Templates

Create a new template, use brackets as name, and this as pattern:

(${word_selection})${cursor}

You can then obtain the functionality you wanted by pressing CTRL + SPACE and then chose your template.

Upvotes: 0

antiguru
antiguru

Reputation: 1131

I don't think this functionality is in Eclipse by default, but you could try to add it yourself.

Select the block that you want to surround and press Alt+Shift+Z. This will open the "Surround with..." menu. It suggests some predefined templates, but also allows to add new ones. This is the closest of what Eclipse offers for that.

Upvotes: 1

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