How can I indent multiple lines in Xcode

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When I select multiple lines of code and want to indent them as usual with TAB key  it just deletes them all  I come from Eclipse where I always did it that way  How s that done in Xcode  I hope not line by line

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Basically     for left multiple indent and     right multiple indent   For TR keyboard you can left multiple indent with     8 and right multiple indent with     9 Because both 8 and 9 are ALT characters of the these nums Or if you have a keyboard which has   or   characters are belong to ALT    property so you can use     KEYBOARD CHARACTER

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Shortcut key       ctrl   i   NOTE  Please select codes to Re-indent and press  control  and  i  on your mac

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If you want to remap the standard Xcode s     to TAB  you can do the following    Install a program called  Karabiner   Go to Preferences     Misc and Uninstall  In  Custom Setting  section click on the  Open private xml  button Open the file and replace its content with the following code    lt  xml version  1 0   gt    lt root gt       lt item gt           lt name gt Tab instead of Command   lt  name gt           lt identifier gt private swap tab and cmnd   lt  identifier gt           lt autogen gt                KeyToKey               KeyCode  TAB  ModifierFlag  NONE              KeyCode  BRACKET RIGHT  ModifierFlag  COMMAND L   ModifierFlag  NONE          lt  autogen gt       lt  item gt    lt  root gt   Go to Preferences     Change Key     click on  Reload XML  button Put a tick in the checkbox which is called  Tab instead of Command    Enjoy     PS  Please note that this setting works globally on your machine  not just in Xcode  However  I am sure that google might help you to find a solution how to customize it even further  applying the changes only to Xcode

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Another way to quickly reformat indenting is a quick cut and paste    x and   v  I often find it faster than     or     as you can do it with one hand  versus two  and it will reformat to the correct indent level in one shot

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To all frenchs Xcoders around  the default keybindings are as follow   Indent selection                Unindent selection

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Here are the shortcuts  to format the code in XCode    Format entire code  entire class controller   Select the entire code and press control I  on mac to format your code  Format particular block of code  Select the code and press        for right move  indent      for left move  un-indent     Note  as per  JavierGiovannini sugesstion you can do using Editor Menu option   Select your code and navigate to Editor   Structure   Re-Indent

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Since I didn t see an update to this question for the current version of Xcode  I thought I d add that in Xcode 9 3  Tab works for indenting selected line s  of text as well as moving from one autocomplete field to another

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If you use synergy  to share one keyboard for two PCs  and PC MAC  in which you are using xcode is slave  and master PC is Windows PC keyboard shortcuts are alt   for indent and alt   for un-indent     Update   But from synergy version 1 5 working     for indent and     for un-indent

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For those of you with Spanish keyboard on mac this are the shortcuts             for un-indent            for indent

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In Xcode 9  you can finally use Tab and Shift Tab to indent multiple lines of code  Yay

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here all the important shortcuts from another question answered on stack overflow

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First  select all code using command a  Second  hold key ctr and then press i    the whole selected code will nicely indent

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Tab for Indent  SHIFT   Tab Re-indent

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and       are the equivalents to shift tab in Xcode

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In Xcode 4 2 auto-indenting is pretty good  You can now indent a selection of code by pressing the Tab key  I find that Xcode generally formats code really well automatically  and you rarely have to move things around yourself  I find it faster to select a piece of code  right-click and choose Structure -  Re-indent if some code looks messy

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Select your code to reindent  then Go to      Editor -  Structure -  Re-Indent

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Danish Keyboard  Unindent          8  Indent          9

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The keyboard shortcuts are     for indent and     for un-indent      In Xcode s preferences window  click the Key Bindings toolbar button  The Key Bindings section is where you customize keyboard shortcuts

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For code indentation first select the lines of code then press  command   alt     command   alt

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Select  Tab key  Indents always  in Preferences- Text Editing- Indentation Then you can indent a single line or a selection of lines by pressing TAB or SHIFT TAB Sadly this removes altogether the possibility to insert tabs where you want  and conflict badly with the tab key being used to switch between  autocompletion fields    I guess we need more tab keys in the keyboard  one is not enough

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