undo tab

[Tom]

Hi,

as we all know we need tabs if we use for, if ... commands. Sometimes I
find an easier way to do something and I can get rid of one or more for,
if ... loops. Unfortunately I couldn't find a convenient way to get rid
of the now unnecessary tabs. I am looking for something as convenient as
inserting tabs (mark everything and push the tab key). I tried shift+tab
and all other possible variations with alt/shift/ctrl.

Thanks for your help.
Tom

 

[Andreas Kuntzagk]

Hi,

Maybe you can just give me a general hint how you do it and which editor
you use. That would probably also help.

I use Xemacs, and do it with "Ctrl-c <"
I don't know about Emacs on Windows, but the "GNU Emacs FAQ For Windows"
can probably help you with this:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

HTH,
Andreas

 

[Ulrich Petri]

Hi,

it doesn't work with any editor that I tried. The one I use on a regular
basis is the standard python IDLE. Sometimes I also use the editor of
pythonwin and Boa-Constructor.

Maybe you can just give me a general hint how you do it and which editor
you use. That would probably also help.

Thank you, Tom.

I use UltraEdit-32. There it works with Shift-Tab.

Ciao Ulrich

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hannu_Kankaanp=E4=E4?=]

Hi,

it doesn't work with any editor that I tried. The one I use on a regular
basis is the standard python IDLE. Sometimes I also use the editor of
pythonwin and Boa-Constructor.

Maybe you can just give me a general hint how you do it and which editor
you use. That would probably also help.

Thank you, Tom.

I had to change IDLE a bit for it to work. In Python path, go to
Tools/idle and edit AutoIndent.py. Find windows_keydefs or unix_keydefs
depending on your platform and change "<<dedent-region>>"-line to:

'<<dedent-region>>': ['<Shift-Key-Tab>'],