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  • October 9, 2012 at 6:42 pm #10575
    JohnQSmith
    Participant

    Is it possible to have the backspace delete to the previous indent instead of just a single character?

    For instance:

    1   <ul>
    
	2       <li>first</li>
    
	3           <li>second</li>
    
	4           </ul>

    If I have the cursor just in front of the

  • second

    • on line 3, I would like to have the backspace delete 4 spaces instead of just 1 space. If I have the cursor just in front of the on line 4, I would like to press the backspace key twice to have it line up with the

      on line 1.

      I was able to find the Tabify and Untabify commands which have helped some.

October 15, 2012 at 2:15 pm #10583
JohnQSmith
Participant

So is this currently doable and I’m missing the setting or should this be moved to Suggestions?

October 15, 2012 at 4:46 pm #10584
Yutaka Emura
Keymaster

Hello,

The current version doesn’t support such a feature, except for making a macro or snippet for that purpose and assign that macro or snippet as BACKSPACE. I will think about that in future versions if this is important to you. You can also use SHIFT + TAB to delete tabs after selecting the lines you want to remove indent.

Thank you!

October 15, 2012 at 5:19 pm #10585
JohnQSmith
Participant

Yes, please add it to the wishlist.

October 19, 2012 at 7:45 pm #10591
JohnQSmith
Participant

Actually, never mind.

I found out that the other editors I use have the same functionality. The difference was that I had tab indenting turned on in them whereas I was using space indenting in EmEditor.

Thanks for a great product.

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