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ingenious
Senior Member
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 Posted - Oct 15 2007 : 1:12:56 PM
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Hi,
I am working on a project for which many people (Linux fans) insisted to indent code with spaces instead of tabs. I am used to tabs in my Visual Studio and now that I've switched to spaces I miss deleting indentation with the backspace - when tab indentation is set, a single stoke on backspace deletes the tab character and thus one level of indentation, but when indenting with spaces the VS2005 editor deletes only a single space character at a time (for unindenting Shift+Tab still works, but it's not that always convenient for me).
Strangely enough, the VS macro editor does exactly what I want - when there are 4 spaces (or whatever the space indentation setting is) behind the cursor, hitting the backspace deletes them all, while if there are 3 or less, it deletes them one space character at a time. I cannot set such behavior in the VS editor.
Would it be possible to hack such behavior as an option in VAssist?
Thanks in advance! |
Edited by - ingenious on Oct 15 2007 1:14:05 PM |
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znakeeye
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Oct 16 2007 : 03:04:11 AM
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| You can try out the well-known Ctrl+Backspace combination. Not exactly what you're looking for, but it's at least a start :) |
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ingenious
Senior Member
25 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2007 : 06:23:28 AM
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Originally posted by znakeeye
You can try out the well-known Ctrl+Backspace combination. Not exactly what you're looking for, but it's at least a start :)
Unfortunately Ctrl+Backspace deletes all white characters, no matter the indentation level... |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 17 2007 : 08:48:18 AM
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You might be better off leaving the IDE in tab mode, and binding a keyboard shortcut to the command [COLOR=blue]Edit.ConvertSpacesToTabs[/COLOR], the best of both worlds 
Or consider running your source code through http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcgreatcode/
We are trying to avoid getting into the whole question of code formatting, which this is verges on.
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Delete indentation spaces with baqckspace?
