#37 tab deletes selected text

[Anonymous]

Highlight (select) a few lines of text. Press tab. The
selected text is deleted.

I don't know if this is expected and desired behaviour,
but I expected (hoped) it would indent the selection by
one tab stop.

I've seen this behaviour in Linux, on versions 5.1-5.3

[Andrew Hood]

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In NEdit tab is a character just like any other displayable
ASCII.
To achieve what you are trying to do use Ctrl-Shift-)
FYI Ctrl-) will only indent by one character.

[Thorsten Haude]

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This is what I would expect, if I want the tab to be a
regular character. However, I don't, so I use these macros:

define SmartTab
{
if ($selection_start == -1)
{
process_tab()
} else
{
shift_right_by_tab()
}
}

define SmartUntab
{
if ($selection_start == -1)
{
insert_string("\t")
} else
{
shift_left_by_tab()
}
}

[Scott Tringali]

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This is intended behavior. The indent functions are not
invoked by tab. However, lots of editors seem to use tab
nowadays to invoke indentation features, so it seems like a
good idea to be compatible with them. As it stands, our
keyboard method of invoking indentation is unique.

Change to feature request for future consideration.

[Carsten Hahn]

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the mentioned behaviour is IMHO very useful when
editing/fixing makefiles and the like where it happens quite
often that you have to replace something (some spaces...)
by a tab character. I'd prefer to leave it unchanged.