switch-header-source package

Quick switching between corresponding C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ header and source files...

...Actually between any arbitrarily defined groups of files (as long as you can match their filenames with a regular expression)!

For example:

• Switch between .C, .h, and .md files (for implementation, headers, and class documentation files)
• Switch between .js, .html, and .css files
• Your imagination is the limit.. if not, file an issue!

Usage

Mac

Use Ctrl-Option-s to cycle forward though groups of matching files ( Shift-Ctrl-Option-s to cycle backwards).

Linux, Windows

Use Alt-o to cycle forward though groups of matching files (Shift-Alt-o to cycle backwards).

Configuration

The plugin will match each file's name in the project using the regular expression in the Tracked file regular expression setting. If the file name matches it is added to the group of files that shares the first capture group (this is the part of the regular expression that was matched in the first pair of parenthesis).

Let's for example decipher the Tracked file regular expression setting

(.*)\.(h|cpp)$

• the (.*) is the first capture group in this expression (you will see that it will match the base name of each matching file).
• the \. will match a period (the dot that separates the base name from the file extension).
• the (h|cpp) means "match a literal h or a cpp string" (those are the file extensions of the files we want to switch between - and you can specify as many here as you like, e.g. (h|cpp|md)).
• the $ matches the end of the filename (with this we make sure that nothing else comes after the extension in the filename, like for example a .bak or ~, which would cause the plugin to switch to backup files)

Examples

• Switch between files with three different extensions (.js, .html, .css)

(.*)\.(js|html|css)$

• Switch between a series of files like output_xi-0, output_xi-1, output_xi-2, ... output_xi-10

(.*)-(\d+)$