Provide shift left/shift right functionality

[delfuego]

It'd be nice if this editor provided shift left/shift right functionality, like most of the Eclipse code editors (e.g., https://help.eclipse.org/2021-03/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.cdt.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Fcdt_t_shift_code.htm&resultof%3D%2522%2573%2568%2569%2566%2574%2522%2520%2522%2572%2569%2567%2568%2574%2522%2520).

Is there any way this might be possible?

[de-jcup]

There is mentioned:

In the C/C++ editor, select the full length of the lines that you want to shift.
Do one of the following:
    To move the text to the right, press Tab.
    To move the text to the right, click Edit > Shift Right.
    To move the text to the left, press Shift+Tab.
    To move the text to the left, click Edit > Shift Left.

At the moment you can do

• Format the document (context menu "Source" -> "Format"
• After this is done, select a wanted text area to move with mouse
  • Pressing Tab will move right
  • Pressing Shift + Tab will move left
• The move left , move right does use always same length of spaces

So, the functionality is basically available.

Looking at Java IDE, I found it inside Source menu (and not in Edit)

So do you only miss dedicated actions "Move left", "Move right" in the source menu (and context menu) ?

[delfuego]

@de-jcup I literally had no idea that Eclipse hid the shift-right/shift-left functionality behind the tab/shift-tab keyboard shortcuts! So I was missing the functionality entirely, but now I'm just missing the source and context menu items. So I'm good now using the tab/shift-tab keys (if I remember!), but it'd certainly be nice to also see the menu items.

[de-jcup]

Just select the wanted area and open context menu (right mouse click). Inside the menu you will find Shift right and Shift leftas well.

so i will close this issue