[Qt-creator] Change keys for indent/unindent lines

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Christian Kamm <christian.d.kamm at nokia.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 16 March 2011 15:35:46 ext Stephen Chu wrote:
>> I stumbled into tab/shift-tab with selection to indent/unindent lines
>of
>> text. They add/remove leading tabs to selected lines. I had this
>> function in other IDEs I used and find it extremely useful.
>> 
>> One issue I have is the use of tab key for this. Sometimes I will
>select
>> some text and hit tab to replace the text with a tab. Instead of
>doing
>> that, the editor adds a tab to the beginning of the line, leaving my
>> selection intact.
>> 
>> Is there a way to change the keys for this function? I checked the
>> Environment preferences and either it's not there or it's named so I
>> don't recognize it.
>
>There's a setting for the behavior of the tab key in
>Options/Editor/Behavior, 
>you can disable it or make it indent in leading whitespace only.
>
>Cheers,
>Christian
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This bugged me to for a while but I've got used hitting delete/backspace before tab.

Be weary of how much tweaking you do to the defaults like that if you plan to use at creator on different computers.