Notebook: Is there a "reindent" option?

[elmerehbi]

I pasted some code and the code was not indented. Is there a "reindent" option like the one employed by SublieText?

If not, kindly consider it a a feature.

[minrk]

The CodeMirror action is indentAuto, but I don't think it's bound to a key by default in the notebook. The default CM keybinding for this is Shift-Tab, but I think we override Shift-Tab to indentLess instead, which is already available as ctrl/cmd-[.

[elmerehbi]

I am not sure if we're on the same track. I don't mean auto-indent which is already present. I mean to be able to re-indent a code block with a click or shortcut instead of doing it manually.

[minrk]

Then I don't know what you mean by re-indent. We have

• indentAuto: take a selected block of text and indent it how CodeMirror thinks it should be
• indentMore: increase indentation of selection
• indentLess: decrease indentation of selection

What do you want reindent to do?

[elmerehbi]

@minrk I am not sure if indentAuto is capable of this but nothing in the menu offers this and neither a shortcut.
This sums it up: It’s useful if you need to change a document from using spaces to tabs, for instance.

and here: The Reindent command is handy for quickly formatting a messy block of HTML.

It helps a lot if you have an unindented block or not correctly indented one.

[minrk]

Gotcha, that's what indentAuto does. There isn't a default shortcut for it at the moment in the notebook, but we should be able to add it, either via the menu or keyboard shortcut.

[elmerehbi]

Great. Looking forward to it.

[elmerehbi]

Thanks for the shortcut though this is not what I was implying. I made a screencast to show this.

Sorry for the duplicate posts.

[Carreau]

What you want was discontinued from CodeMirror, you should be able to write an extension that does it:

Cf this SO question for example : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25109809/codemirror-auto-format-after-setvalue. It's though, something which is hard with Python as various indentation have various meaning.