[TxMt] Changing Tab-Behavior

[Andreas Bueler]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 3:45 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2005, at 3:28, Andreas Bueler wrote:
>
>> [...] I find it strange that single line intending to the right works 
>> correctly (using tabs), but if you try to tab back to the left site, 
>> it is using spaces instead of tabs.
>
> I don't understand this. Are you using 'shift left' (from the Text 
> menu) w/o a selection to indent a line (i.e. add leading tabs) and it 
> then inserts a tab character. But when you afterwards use 'shift 
> right' it only removes a single space from the line and not a tab 
> character

Sorry, I was explaining it wrong :( I use the tab key to intend code 
(works fine). When I would like to delete leading tabs (delete key) it 
only deletes one
space instead of removing the tab character.

>
>> It would also be great to change the behavior of multi line tabbing. 
>> I'm so used to use the tab key to intend to the right and "apple key" 
>> together with the tab key to move lines to the left. But if I do 
>> that, the lines I would like to intend, are deleted.
>
> You can use option-tab and option-shift-tab instead. The reason I 
> didn't put it on tab (as I know some editors do) is, that I often 
> replace the selection with a single tab character.
>
> You can however change the default keys to have it on tab instead (if 
> you really want it) -- currently you'll need to manually create a key 
> bindings file (see Help / Key Bindings).

Thanks, I will take a look at that option. I really like to use the 
keys I'm used to.
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