[Newbies] Better editor components?

Stuart Herring st-lists at stuartherring.com
Wed Jun 13 02:16:41 UTC 2007


> > About the only issue I've found is that tab won't indent selected
> > lines - it just replaces them with a tab.
>
>
> Correct -- this is the same as in *any* wysiwig editor, because tab
> is an actual text character that resides in the body of text, rather
> than a meta-directive to an editor.
>
> However, hitting alt-shift-R indents all selected lines, i.e. shifts
> them right by one tab-stop, which I think is what you are looking for.
>
> Similarly, alt-shift-L will shift all selected lines one tab-stop to
> the *left*.
>
Excellent! Thanks for the hint :)

Regards,
Stuart.


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