How to remove tab indent from several lines in IDLE

Question

If you want to indent several lines in Python IDLE you just mark the lines and hit Tab  But what if you want to remove the indent from several lines  Shift Tab does not work for that in IDLE

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In Jupyter Notebook    SHIFT  TAB to move left  and TAB to move right  movement is perfectly working

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Shift-Tab Ctrl-Tab  lt  key   depends on your editor

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in pythonwin   SHIFT   TAB  works

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By default  IDLE has it on Shift-Left Bracket  However  if you want  you can customise it to be Shift-Tab by clicking Options --  Configure IDLE --  Keys --  Use a Custom Key Set --  dedent-region --  Get New Keys for Selection  Then you can choose whatever combination you want   Don t forget to click apply otherwise all the settings would not get affected

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For IDLE  select the lines  then open the  Format  menu   Between  Edit  and  Run  if you re having trouble finding it   This will also give you the keyboard shortcut  for me it turned out that dedent shortcut was  Ctrl

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If you re using IDLE  and the Norwegian keyboard makes Ctrl-  a problem  you can change the key    Go Options- Configure IDLE  Click the Keys tab  If necessary  click Save as New Custom Key Set  With your custom key set  find  dedent-region  in the list  Click Get New Keys for Selection  etc   I tried putting in shift-Tab and that worked nicely

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Depends on your editor   Have you tried Shift Tab

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If you re using IDLE  you can use Ctrl   to indent and Ctrl   to unindent

[indentation] How to remove tab indent from several lines in IDLE?

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