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Signed-off-by: Don HO <don.h@free.fr> git-svn-id: svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/notepadplus/repository/trunk@504 f5eea248-9336-0410-98b8-ebc06183d4e3
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1.9 KiB
HTML
29 lines
1.9 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head>
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<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Indentation</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"></head>
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<body>
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<h1>Indentation</h1>
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<p>
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Indenting text is a common operation when
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dealing with source code editing, and Scintilla and Notepad++ have
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full support for it. Indentation is the addition of extra whitespace at
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the start of a line to separate blocks of text, adding a hierarchy.
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<p>
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Normally when editing, pressing the <span class="shortcut">Tab</span>
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key will insert a tab character
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at the current location. However, if some text is selected, pressing
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the <span class="shortcut">Tab</span> key
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(by default) will add additional whitespace at the
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beginning of each line that has any selected text, allowing to indent
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entire blocks of text at once. Pressing <span class="shortcut">Shift-TAB</span> will remove the
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indentation.
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<p> Indentation is done in levels, each level adding a
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predefined amount of whitespace (this amount can be configured, see <a href="Preferences.html#Edit_Components">Preferences</a>). There is also an option of choosing whether
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to insert a TAB character or (multiple) spaces (for this, also see <a href="Preferences.html#Edit_Components">Preferences</a>).
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<p>Scintilla can show a line/guide for each
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level, which can be toggled by selecting <span class="menu_item">View->Show Symbol->Show Indent Guide</span>
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or
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pressing <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/indentGuide.png">. This guideline shows a visual cue to keep track of the current indentation level of lines. To change the color used, see <a href="Styler%20Configurator.html#Indent_Guideline_Style">Styler Configurator</a> (note that if the guideline matches highlighted braces, it will assume the color of the brace highlight).
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