Shift+Tab=A lot less time using backspace

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Feb 26 2006, 9:34 pm
Im not sure if many people know this. Have you ever found it frustrating when, when programming in DM, you sometimes indent a whole area too much? Then you have to go through each individual line and backspace it. Wouldnt it be easier if you could select it and with a press of a button it tabed itsself backwards. Well I was looking at the tab key, as I was annoyed with the stupid bullet points in office ord, and I start playing around with some key combinations, as I noticed 2 arrows, one going left and one going right. In the end I found that if you pressed shift and tab it tabs the text backwards. I hope this will relieve a lot of people of there stress when working in DM.

ADT_CLONE
Feb 26 2006, 10:00 pm
It doesn't move the text, it only moves the line back.
Feb 27 2006, 12:59 am
In response to Artemio
Uh... the distinction being?

It simply unindents all the lines in the current selection (or the current line if you don't have anything selected).
Feb 27 2006, 1:05 am
In response to Crispy
Well, I sometimes when im coding I accidently indent something wrong, and sometimes its a really big section of code. Usually to fix this I would just have to backspace every line to get it back to normal, but with this I can do it all in one go.
Feb 27 2006, 1:15 am
In response to ADT_CLONE
I think this is wonderful! I also mis indented wrongly, and then I always did delete, arrow to go downstairs,delete, arrow, delete....

You learn something new everyday, ey?
Feb 27 2006, 1:16 am
In response to ADT_CLONE
I know, I do that too; though usually because I'm restructuring the code for some reason. I was talking to Artemio. =)
Feb 27 2006, 2:36 am
Yep... I figured out about this long ago. Figured everyone knew, maybe it should be documented(is it?). Useful either way. =P
Feb 27 2006, 6:31 am
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
ALOT of these features are not documented, chances are it's not. Though if they were, it would of saved me, myself, ALOT of time. I have tabbed too much so many times, thanks ADT.

These features should be really documented, along with the ones in the iconmaking section of Dream Maker.


-Doh
Feb 27 2006, 10:25 am
And just tab will indent the whole selected area the same way.
Feb 27 2006, 11:39 am
...wow, how did I not know this before?!

Thank you so much!
Mar 2 2006, 9:05 am
In response to Loduwijk
Loduwijk wrote:
And just tab will indent the whole selected area the same way.

I knew that, but I didn't know about Shift+Tab. Thanks A LOT ADT!!!!!! That'll help!
Mar 2 2006, 10:49 am
In response to Crispy
The distinction being I'd rather press backspace/delete than shift+tab+backspace/delete.
Mar 2 2006, 3:35 pm
In response to Artemio
Uh, what? You're not making sense... Since when do you need to press Shift+Tab+Backspace?!