How do I autoindent in Netbeans

Question

In eclipse you can click Ctrl I at any line  and it ll automatically indent the line or group of lines according to the indentation scheme you chose in the settings   I m really missing this feature in Netbeans  Is there any equivalent feature   I m aware of Alt Shift F but it s not good enough  I want to indent a group of lines  and not all the file

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Shortcut   Windows  Alt Shift F Mac OS X  Ctrl Shift F  note  it s Ctrl and not     On using above shortcut  NetBeans indents your selection  If nothing s selected  it indents the whole file  You can even format multiple files folders at a time  In the Projects window sidebar  if you select one or more folders or files and use the shortcut  NetBeans asks  quot Recursively format selected files and folders  quot   Pressing OK will recursively format all the selected files folders  Above shortcuts works on NetBeans from versions 7 to 12

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Here s the complete procedure to auto-indent a file with Netbeans 8   First step is to go to Tools - gt  Options and click on Editor button and Formatting tab as it is shown on the following image     When you have set your formatting options  click the Apply button and OK  Note that my example is with C   language  but this also apply for Java as well   The second step is to CTRL   A on the file where you want to apply your new formatting setting  Then  ALT   SHIFT   F or click on the menu Source - gt  Format   Hope this will help

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Select the lines you want to reformat  indenting   then hit Alt Shift F  Only the selected lines will be reformatted

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for Java NetBeans 7 1 and later  even in NetBeans 8 0  That i  m currently using  and later  the shortcut is   Alt Shift F  if you look into the KeyMap accessing from the menu  Tools -  Options -  Keymap  the  action  is Format defined with the Shortcut   Alt Shift F

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If you want auto-indent just like Emacs does it on TAB  i e  indent the current line and move the cursor to the first non-whitespace character  do this    Go to Tools -  Options -  Editor -  Macros Create a new macro and call it something like  tabindent  Insert the following macro code   reindent-line caret-line-first-column caret-begin-line Click  Set Shortcut  and press TAB

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Shift   Alt   F indents the whole file

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Open Tools -  Options -  Keymap  then look for the action called  Re-indent current line or selection  and set whatever shortcut you want

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I have netbeans 6 9 1 open right now and ALT SHIFT F indents only the lines you have selected   If no lines are selected then it will indent the whole document you are in   1 possibly unintended behavior is that if you have selected ONLY 1 line  it must be selected completely  otherwise it does nothing  But you don t have to completely select the last line of a group nor the first    I expected it to indent only one line by just selecting the first couple of chars but didn t work  yea i know i am lazy as hell

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Ctrl Shift F will do a format of all the code in the page

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To format all the code in NetBeans  press Alt   Shift   F  If you want to indent lines  select the lines and press Alt   Shift   right arrow key  and to unindent  press Alt   Shift   left arrow key

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