Komodo Tips

Komodo Edit, an code editor based on Mozilla, has a nice features called "Macro", allows programming of UI. This applies to version 8.5 in MacOSX.

First, open Toolbox sidebar, right click / click on Setting button in top-right corner, we will have a list of customisation available (command, macro, snippet).

My favourite list:

1. View current file in Shift JIS

Japanese legacy code are largely written in Shift JIS encoding.

Adding this Javascript macro let you quickly switch:

komodo.assertMacroVersion(3);
var koDoc = ko.views.manager.currentView.koDoc;
if (koDoc.encoding.short_encoding_name != "Shift JIS") {
    koDoc.setEncodingFromEncodingName("Shift JIS");
}

I often assign Cmd + Shift + J shortcut to this.

2. Open GitX for this file

Git should be init beforehand (or you can add a command for init : )
The "%D" represents current folder of current file.
Add a command look like below, and set your own shortcut key:

Based on this, you can easily create a shortcut for executing PHP, Python script:

3. Move the current line up / down

The days before I works with Notepad++, above useful shortcuts are missing in Komodo.
However, we can "emulate" it using 2 macros.
Script below are taken from Komodo forums:
http://community.activestate.com/forum/move-line-move-line-down-macros

For move selection / current line down

// Move Line or Move Selection Down
komodo.assertMacroVersion(3);
if (komodo.view) { komodo.view.setFocus() };
var ke = komodo.editor;

if( ke.lineFromPosition( ke.currentPos ) == ( ke.lineCount - 1 ) )
        return;

// Prevent Undo remember macro steps
ke.beginUndoAction();
   
var sel_start_a = ke.selectionStart;
var sel_end_a = ke.selectionEnd;

// Extend selection to beg of line at front and end of line at back
var selStartLine = ke.lineFromPosition(ke.selectionStart);
var selEndLine = ke.lineFromPosition(ke.selectionEnd);
var numLinesSelected = selEndLine - selStartLine;

var selStart = ke.positionFromLine( selStartLine );
var selEnd   = ke.getLineEndPosition( selEndLine );

ke.setSel( selStart, selEnd );

// Determine original selection position offset related to extended
var sel_start_b = ke.selectionStart;
var sel_end_b = ke.selectionEnd;
var offset_start = sel_start_a - sel_start_b;
var offset_end = sel_end_b - sel_end_a;  

// Copy the selected text and remove it
var text =  komodo.interpolate('%s');
komodo.doCommand('cmd_delete'); // This leaves a blank line in place of selection

// Move our selection to a new place
// First move our blank line up
komodo.doCommand('cmd_lineNext')
ke.lineTranspose();

// Insert our text
ke.insertText(ke.currentPos, text);

// Restore selection            
var newSelStartLine = ke.lineFromPosition( ke.currentPos );
var newSelEndLine   = newSelStartLine + numLinesSelected;

var newSelStart = ke.currentPos + offset_start;
var newSelEnd   = ke.getLineEndPosition(newSelEndLine) - offset_end;

ke.setSel(newSelStart, newSelEnd);

// End of prevent Undo
ke.endUndoAction();

For moving up:

// Move Line or Move Selection Up
komodo.assertMacroVersion(3);
if (komodo.view) { komodo.view.setFocus() };
var ke = komodo.editor;

if( ke.lineFromPosition( ke.currentPos ) == 0 )
        return;

// Prevent Undo remember macro steps
ke.beginUndoAction();
   
var sel_start_a = ke.selectionStart;
var sel_end_a = ke.selectionEnd;

// Extend selection to beg of line at front and end of line at back
var selStartLine = ke.lineFromPosition(ke.selectionStart);
var selEndLine = ke.lineFromPosition(ke.selectionEnd);
var numLinesSelected = selEndLine - selStartLine;

var selStart = ke.positionFromLine(selStartLine);
var selEnd   = ke.getLineEndPosition(selEndLine);

ke.setSel(selStart, selEnd);

// Determine original selection position offset related to extended
var sel_start_b = ke.selectionStart;
var sel_end_b = ke.selectionEnd;
var offset_start = sel_start_a - sel_start_b;
var offset_end = sel_end_b - sel_end_a;  

// Copy the selected text and remove it
var text =  komodo.interpolate('%s');
komodo.doCommand('cmd_delete'); // This leaves a blank line in place of selection

// Move our selection to a new place
// First move our blank line up
ke.lineTranspose();
komodo.doCommand('cmd_linePrevious')

// Insert our text
ke.insertText(ke.currentPos, text);

// Restore selection
var newSelStartLine = ke.lineFromPosition( ke.currentPos );
var newSelEndLine   = newSelStartLine + numLinesSelected;

var newSelStart = ke.currentPos + offset_start;
var newSelEnd   = ke.getLineEndPosition(newSelEndLine) - offset_end;

ke.setSel(newSelStart, newSelEnd);

// End of prevent Undo
ke.endUndoAction();

4. Find and replace

The find window is often get lost because of Windows overlap.
A solution is clicking pin icon on the right down corner.
Also, set proper include and exclude pattern may help while searching on a directory.
My exclude pattern is:

vendor:.svn:.git:template_c:*~

The regex in replace box using notation \1, ..  \n for matched groups.

5. Emmet

Emmet is an add-on for typing HTML faster.
Watch how amazing it is at http://docs.emmet.io/
I often set key Shift - Enter for expanding emmet abbr.

6. Keybindings
Key with * are not set by default.

Cmd + Shift + K = Invoke tool
*Cmd + P = Quick open (like Sublime does, but we need to create a "project" beforehand)
*Cmd + | =  Browser preview split view: the page reload on save
*Cmd + M = Duplicate line or selection
*Cmd + G = Go to line
*F4 and Esc = Complete word
*Cmd + K = Set mark
*F10 = Show current file in places