Re: [Usability]gedit line wrapping and keyboard navigation

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

> IMHO the problem lies with the tabifying operation and not with the
> behaviour of the arrow keys.  This tabify operation can be accelerated
> by using a "tabify selection" action.
> 
> It is something that is available in other development environments; you
> select a block and press the tab key, the result is that the whole
> selection gets indented to the right; if you press Shift+Tab, the
> selection is indented to the left.  Much handier and speedier in my
> opinion.

You can do it in gedit by using the "Indent lines" plugin.

You select a block (or put the cursor in the line you want to indent) and 
press the key Ctrl+T (or Shift+Ctrl+T to unindent).

Note that the default behavior of GtkTextView (and so of gedit) when pressing
TAB is replacing the selected text with a single TAB.

Ciao,
Paolo

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