How to shift a block of code left right by one space in VSCode

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In VSCode  I can use alt-up and alt-down to move a line or block up or down  but I can t find a command to increase or decrease indent by one space   I can indent outdent by multiples of tabSize  but that s not quite general enough for me  and I don t really want to set tabSize 1    In Vim I made handy shortcuts to move a line or lines up down left right with ctrl-k j h l - it was probably the most useful bit of Vimscript I ever wrote

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In MacOS  a simple way is to use Sublime settings and bindings   Navigate to VS Code      Click on Help -  Welcome   On the top right  you can find Customise section and in that click on Sublime   Bingo  Done   Reload VS Code and you are free to use Command     and Command

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UPDATE  While these methods work  newer versions of VS Code uses the Ctrl   shortcut to indent a block of code once  and Ctrl   to remove indentation   This method detects the indentation in a file and indents accordingly You can change the size of indentation by clicking on the Select Indentation setting in the bottom right of VS Code  looks something like  Spaces  2    selecting  Indent using Spaces  from the drop-down menu and then selecting by how many spaces you would like to indent

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No need to use any tool for that  Set Tab Spaces to 1  Select whole block of code and then press Shift   Tab  Shift   Tab   Shift text right to left

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Have a look at File   Preferences   Keyboard Shortcuts  or Ctrl K Ctrl S    Search for cursorColumnSelectDown or cursorColumnSelectUp which will give you the relevent keyboard shortcut  For me it is Shift Alt Down Up Arrow

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Current Version 1 38 1   I had a problem with intending  The default Command   is set to 4 and I wanted it to be 2  Installed  Indent 4-to-2  but it changed the entire file and not the selected text   I changed the tab spacing in settings and it was simple   Go to Settings -  Text Editor -  Tab Size

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There was a feature request for that in vscode repo  But it was marked as extension-candidate and closed  So  here is the extension  Indent One space     Unlike the answer below that tells you to use Ctrl   this extension indents code by ONE whtespace

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Recent versions of VSCode  e g   Version 1 29 at the time of posting this answer  allow you to change the Tab Space size to 1  or any number between 1 and 8   You may change the Tab Space size from the bottom-right corner as shown in the below image     Click on Spaces 4  Then  select Indent Using Spaces or Indent Using Tabs and choose the size 1   Hope it helps

[visual-studio-code] How to shift a block of code left/right by one space in VSCode?

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