How do I indent multiple lines at once in Notepad

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In many text editors that are aimed at programmers  if the user has a selection that spans more than 1 line and presses the TAB key  those lines are indented by 1 TAB  or a number of spaces  depending on how the editor is configured    However  this does not seem to be the default behavior of Notepad    Is there a way I can do this in Notepad    or is there a plugin that I can get to allow me to do this   Edit  Upon additional testing  SHIFT-TAB correctly un-indents the lines as expected  but only a tab simply inserts a tab wherever the carat is  This is in version 5 4 5 Unicode

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Just install the NppAutoIndent plug-in  select Plugins   NppAutoIndent   Ignore Language and then Plugins   NppAutoIndent   Smart Indent

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If you re using QuickText and like pressing Tab for it  you can otherwise change the indentation key   Go Settings   Shortcup Mapper   Scintilla Command  Look at the number 10     I changed 10 to   CTRL   ALT   RIGHT and  11 to   CTRL  ALT  LEFT    Now I think it s even better than the TABL   SHIFT   TAB as default

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Capslock   Tab to indent multiple lines at once  Highlight the text first

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Notepad   will only auto-insert subsequent indents if you manually indent the first line in a block  otherwise you can re-indent your code after the fact using TextFX   TextFX Edit   Reindent C   code

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I have Notepad   5 3 1  UNICODE   I haven t done any magic and it works fine for me as described by you   Maybe it depends on the  programming markup       Language

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in Notepad  v6 1 8  Unicode  it works after removing the QuickText plugin

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It works fine for my v  5 4 5 of Notepad     I just select multiple lines and press TAB   If you want TAB to be replaced by SPACE than you need to go Settings   Preferences and select Edit Components tab   Next check Replace by spaces check box in Tab Setting section   Update  In a newer version of Notepad   this option is in Settings   Preferences   Languaage section

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The problem was with the QuickText plugin  After removing it  indent worked as normal

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The problem with the new version of QuickText seems to be that it is set to react to the TAB key   Previously it was set to use CTRL-ENTER   If you change the key combination in the shortcut mapper then your TAB key should start working again  and QuickText should also work  with whatever new key you ve assigned

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