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Question - IDE Easy Tabbing with highlighting?

CloseRange

Member
Back in GM 1.4 one of my favorite small things that I liked was that when you highlighted any amount of a line in code you could tab and shift tab to make the whole line tab in and out.

I notice in gm 2 that's no longer the case, you have to have 2 or more lines selected in order to achieve this.
It's not the biggest problem in the world but after so long of gm 1.x It's become a habit to do this and now using gm2 i keep just replacing my semi-colons with tabs.... I'm kind of lazy and don't want to get used to navigating to the front of the code line to do a tab ;)

Is there a key command I'm missing to do this or an option somewhere in preferences to get this small detail back?
 

Mike

nobody important
GMC Elder
works exactly the same in GMS2. Just highlight and press tab, then SHIFT+Tab to shift back.

If you highlight an chunk of text then right click, you'll also see the TAB in the menu - along with the shortcut.
 

CloseRange

Member
hmm must be a personal problem then. Right clicking shows the command but there seems to be no shortcut assigned.
Thank you for the reply! I'll look into fixing that keybinding.
 

Mike

nobody important
GMC Elder
okay... not a clue why you're not seeing the shortcuts then

This is what I see, and while "Tab In" isn't listed (it's just Tab), "Tab out" clearly shows it - very odd.

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