[TxMt] Changing Tab-Behavior

[Allan Odgaard]

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?

> 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).