Keyboard shortcut: [:shift_space] => 'underscore' Follow

Hello David,

Sorry, I didn't understand it. Could you please clarify what exactly you are typing, what is expected behavior and what you get within RubyMine?

Regards,
Oleg

Its really something that's not in any IDE's or text editors.  Whenever you type shift space, it does nothing.  In ruby you type alot of variables in snake case(snake_case_vars).  But when you type underscore, you kind of have to reach to get to the key.  So it would be really cool to just hit shift-space and have that type an underscore.

Hi,

You can easily add such action using RubyMine ruby extensions api:

1. create a file (e.g. undescore_action.rb) with content

include Java

require 'default_scripts_groups'
require 'editor_action_helper'

register_editor_action "InsertUnderScore",
                       :text => "Insert underscore",
                       :description => "Inserts '_' char",
                       :shortcut => "shift space",
                       :group => "ScriptsRuby" do |editor, file|
  editor.insert_text "_"
end
 

2. Create empty dir (e.g. rubymine_ext) and place the file there
3. Now you need to active the extension in RubyMine: Open File|Settings|Extensions dialog, press "Add" button and choose your rubymine_ext folder
4. Apply settings and relaunch RubyMine
5. Now "Insert Undescore" action should be avaiable

6. "Shift space" action is already reserved for basic autocompletion action, so let's fix it.
Open File | Settings | Keymap dialog
7. BuilIn keymaps are readonly, so press "Copy" button to create a customized version
8. Now type "unders" in search field to quickly navigate to our insert undescore action

9. Press "Add Keyboard Shortcut..." button and press SHIFT+SPACE

10. Press "Ok" and confirm removing shortcut from other actions

11. Now shortcut tip is shown near acton name


and you can start using it =)

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Hi David,

It's a nice hack with Shift-Space instead of the underscore.

I also wanted to mention that RubyMine's code completion allows you to skip the underscores while typing. Check out the attached screenshot.



Hope it helps,
-Eugene

Awesome, thanks for the tip.  I had no idea you could wire up extensions like that!

The recognition of terms without an underscore for code completion makes it that much more robust.  Thanks again, Eugene!