Otherwise, it's merely an extension to the Magic Keyboard with a couple of cool additional key controls.

If you tend to use keyboard short cuts and really don't use a mouse or trackpad very often, the Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is definitely worth an upgrade, but only if you tend to use numbers a lot.

If your keyboard tray is less than 25 inches in length and you use a trackpad or mouse a lot, this keyboard is not for you.

Whether you should get the Magic Keyboard with Numerical Keypad depends on your desktop setup and just how much you'll use that extra 5.5 inches. Since I don't need the number pad, I'm probably going to switch back to the standard Magic Keyboard soon (but not right away because I still want to play with its extra keys). Personally, I love it, but I don't love how much room it takes up on my keyboard tray. I don't even need a dedicated number pad, but I've always wished Apple made one for the Magic Keyboard. The encoding selector is implemented in the encoding-selector package.I've been using the Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad for just about a week now. If you pull up the encoding menu and change the active encoding to something else, the file will be written out in that encoding the next time you save the file. If Atom can't identify the encoding, the encoding will default to UTF-8, which is also the default encoding for new files. When you open a file, Atom will try to auto-detect the encoding. If you pull up the file encoding dialog, you can choose an alternate file encoding to save your file in.

Ctrl+Shift+U Alt+U - Toggle menu to change file encoding.

EncodingĪtom also ships with some basic file encoding support should you find yourself working with non-UTF-8 encoded files, or should you wish to create one. Like all of these packages, to change defaults related to bracket handling, or to disable it entirely, you can navigate to this package in the Settings view.

The brackets functionality is implemented in the bracket-matcher package.

Cmd+Ctrl+M Alt+Ctrl+, - Select all the text inside the current brackets.

It jumps to the nearest enclosing bracket when there's no adjacent bracket.

Ctrl+M - Jump to the bracket matching the one adjacent to the cursor.

There are a few other interesting bracket related commands that you can use. If you have a selection and you type any of these opening brackets or quotes, Atom will enclose the selection with the opening and closing brackets or quotes. It will by default highlight, (), and, '', '', “”, ‘’, «», ‹›, and backticks when you type the leading one. BracketsĪtom ships with intelligent and easy to use bracket handling. You can also disable this option on that screen. If you want to disable this, go to the whitespace package in your settings panel and uncheck that option.Ītom will also by default ensure that your file has a trailing newline.

This means that every time you save any file opened in Atom, it will strip all trailing whitespace from the file. The 'Remove Trailing Whitespace' option is on by default. The settings for the whitespace commands are managed on the page for the whitespace package. The whitespace commands are implemented in the atom/whitespace package. There are no keybindings for the whitespace commands, so you will have to search your command palette for 'Convert Spaces to Tabs' (or vice versa) to run one of these commands. If you're working with a document that has mixed whitespace, these commands are great for helping to normalize the file. One very useful pair of commands converts leading spaces into tabs and converts leading tabs into spaces. WhitespaceĪtom comes with several commands to help you manage the whitespace in your document. You can also use the mouse to select text with the Cmd Ctrl key pressed down to select multiple regions of your text simultaneously. You can use this with almost any plugin or command - for example, changing case and moving or duplicating lines. This can be incredibly helpful in doing many type of repetitive tasks such as renaming variables or changing the format of some text. Using these commands you can place cursors in multiple places in your document and effectively execute the same commands in multiple places at once. Cmd+Shift+L - Convert a multi-line selection into multiple cursors.

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