Is there a way to shift highlighted lines left or right in Notepad++

Question

In the Eclipse IDE (and many others I would imagine) there is a simple shortcut to shift highlighted lines either right or left by one tab length.

I have looked through all of the TextFX in Notepad++ and only found the ability to shift highlighted lines up or down. Is there a built in way to shift highlighted lines left or right?

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

Tab indents, shift-tab unindents.

Answer 2

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Do you just mean that you want to select a region of your code in Notepad++ and intend or unindent it all by a certain number of tabs?

If so, it's really easy. Just select the lines you want to indent and hit . All of the lines will indent by 1 tab. I believe + will do the opposite.

Answer 3

Shift highlighted lines to the right one tab length by pressing the tab key. Shift them to the left by pressing shift-tab.

When lines are highlighted, the tab key doesn't replace them with a tab. It shifts them left/right instead.