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Better indent/unindent for IDE (Read 4237 times)
suzuki
Better indent/unindent for IDE
Oct 23rd, 2007, 1:47am  
It's probably been suggested already--didn't find the exact request--but I was wondering what the developers might think about an Notepad++-style indent/unindent?

Notepad++ (and it's probably not original with Notepad++) allows users to select a block and tab/shift-tab to increase/decrease indent level.

I quickly got used to that feature, and it seems more useful than the current "replace block with tab" functionality, (in my case, usually followed by a pungent expression (kind of) like "Crumbs!", and a hasty "Undo"....)

FWIW!
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tibou
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #1 - Jan 10th, 2008, 11:16am  
about that !!! Notepad ++ use a simple file .api, which is a text file with all the functions name listed for the auto-completion and the color can be set as well with the XML !!
I'm a Notepad++ user, and would love to have processing file recognize by it. can the developers do something about it ?


thanks
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fjen
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #2 - Jan 10th, 2008, 11:47am  
the file with the keywords is in keywords.txt inside the lib folder next to Processing:
../processing-0135/lib/keywords.txt

not speaking for them but i don't think notepad++ support is very high on the priority list of ben and casey (as much as they'd probably love to see notepad++ support Processing syntax). you might give it a try yourself and share the results with us ...

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antiplastik
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #3 - Jan 14th, 2008, 10:03pm  
Back to the main topic, I totally agree with suzuki...

Since most text editors have this very useful and addicting tab indent tool (I'm using Notepad2 and there's this feature too), why not follow the principle of least astonishment Wink
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pedamado
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #4 - Jan 11th, 2009, 7:55pm  
To use Notepad++ with Processing you might want to try this:
1. Navigate to the Program folder;
2. insert the following code into the "userDefineLang.xml" file: http://pedamado.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/userdefinelang.doc
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Kevin
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #5 - Jan 22nd, 2009, 10:40am  
I had the same problem, and I think that shortcut should be implemented in the IDE.

You can do it in the current IDE though, the chortcut is CTRL+} and CTRL+[ will indent and outdent a block of code.


It's not intuitive though for users of other editors.
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Kevin
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #6 - Jan 22nd, 2009, 10:44am  
Also, I filed a bug report on this ages ago, but perhaps it's worth rethinking.

The bug is here:
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=946

Feel free to vote for it.
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PhiLho 
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #7 - Jan 22nd, 2009, 4:00pm  
Kevin, in case you didn't notice, the Tab/Shift+Tab to indent/unindent a group of lines is already implemented in 1.0. (At least it works for me, on WinXP.)

Although the Shift+Tab handling has a little bug, it should also when there is no selection but the caret is in the indentation area. At least I am used to this behavior.
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Kevin
Re: Better indent/unindent for IDE
Reply #8 - Jan 22nd, 2009, 5:33pm  
Ahhh, I didn't notice it had made it into 1.0. That's cool - thanks for the info! Smiley
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