How to indent format a selection of code in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl Shift F

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I want to indent a specific section of code in Visual Studio Code   I read How do you format code in Visual Studio Code  that gives shortcuts to indent the whole code  but it doesn t work when selecting a specific section of code   I tried Ctrl   Shift   F after selecting some line in my code  but the whole file is indented  I m on Windows with Visual Studio Code Insider 1 8 0  How can I do it

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F1  rarr  open Keyboard Shortcuts  rarr  search for  Indent Line   and change keybinding to Tab   Right click    Change when expression  to editorHasSelection  amp  amp  editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly  It will allow you to indent line when something in that line is selected  multiple lines still work

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This should be able to set to whatever keybindings you want for indent outdent here   Menu File  rarr  Preferences  rarr  Keyboard Shortcuts  editor action indentLines  editor action outdentLines

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I want to indent a specific section of code in Visual Studio Code     Select the lines you want to indent  and use Ctrl     to indent them    If you want to format a section  instead of indent it     Select the lines you want to format   use Ctrl   K  Ctrl   F to format them

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For me on windows it was Ctrl      indent line  It adds a tab at the beggining of each line

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This works at least up to version 1 52 0  10 Dec 2020   On macOS Visual Studio Code version 1 36 1  2019   To auto-format the selection  use  K  F  the trick is that this is to be done in sequence   K first  followed by  F    To just indent  shift right  without auto-formatting  use     As in Keyboard Shortcuts   K  S  or from the menu as shown below

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On OS X  choose  Document Format   and select all lines that you need format   Then Option   Shift   F

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you can also indent a whole section by selecting it and clicking TAB and also indent backward using Shift TAB   And of course for auto indentation and formatting  following the language you re using  you can see which good extensions do the good job  and which formatters to install or which parameters settings to enable or set for each language and its available tools  Just make sure to read well the documentation of the extension  to install and set all what it need   Up to now the indentation problem bothers me with Python when copy pasting a block of code  If that s the case  here is how you solve that  Visual Studio Code indentation for Python

[visual-studio-code] How to indent/format a selection of code in Visual Studio Code with Ctrl + Shift + F

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