#548 Let [Tab] conditionally indent or go to next placeholder

[doncherry]

Currently, I can assign the Tab keyt either to “Indent Selection” or to “Next Placeholder”. I would like to configure the following behavior:

if cursor_in_placeholder:
    put_cursor_in next_placeholder
else:
    indent

And the reverse for Shift+Tab, of course.

[Tim Hoffmann]

This can already be achieved by a proper javascript user macro.

You may create a script for the above task and assign <tab> as a shortcut to it in the options.</tab>

See the section on user macros in the manual and example scripts in the wiki.

You'll want the following undocument function

<s>editor.currentPlaceHolder() // returns -1 if it is not in a placeholder</s>

Edit: Sorry, it's more complex than I thought. First, editor.currentPlaceHolder() works differently than I thought. You can't use it here. Second, scripts currently cannot be used for moving the cursor around.

[danieldo]

Wow, really great hint, I was looking for this feature for quite some tim. Thanks!

I tried to implement it with the following script, but I can't get it to work -- the script always indents the current line, even if the cursor is inside a placeholder. Any idea what I did wrong?

%SCRIPT
if(editor.currentPlaceHolder() == -1){
    editor.indentSelection();
} else {
    editor.nextPlaceHolder();
}

[Tim Hoffmann]

You are right. There is currently no way to achive this functionality. See my comment above.

[Morten Nissov]

Is this possible yet?

[Tim Hoffmann]

No, nothing changed here.

[Morten Nissov]

Are there any plans to add this funtionality?

[Tim Hoffmann]

While this functionality is reasonable (like many others), this is not a priority. So no plan. You can upvote the ticket. It increases the likelyhood of implementation if there is much interest.