Visual Studio Extensions AceJump
This week I released my first Visual Studio Extension AceJump. I was inspired by a version of AceJump build by John Lindquist for the JetBrain tools. I first saw him use AceJump in his tutorial video’s on egghead.io and after installing it on JetBrains Webstorm I knew I needed to have the same functionality in Visual Studio. I searched around the plugins in Visual Studio and didn’t find anything, so I built it.
Visual Studio AceJump
As of this blog post it is a fully functional and has a few rough edges but I decided to ship it anyways. Getting software out to real users is important for the feedback loop. Besides I wanted to start using it myself because it such a cool productivity tool.
It was my first Visual Studio extension so I floundered around in the SDK a bit. It was quite the learning experience and I am not sure I did everything the ‘correct way’. I found once you get beyond displaying a purple square in the top right corner of the editor things get tougher. I have shared the AceJump Code so that you can see something a little more complex or maybe show me a better way.
Usage
It is a really simple to use:
- Use shortcut
Ctrl + Alt + ;to display a key selector. - Press any letter to highlight occurrences of that letter in the text editor.
- Press the new letter in the box that is over the letter you want to jump too.
- Your cursor jumps to that spot and you keep coding!
I hope you find this tool as useful as I did when I first used it in Webstorm. Happy Coding!
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