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Tab and Shift + Tab [message #667317]

Thu, 28 April 2011 02:01

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Registered: April 2011

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After searching for an hour I'm clueless... I'm pretty new to Eclipse and one thing I can't figure out is how to reduce indentation. I configured it to use tabs instead of spaces, 4 spaces per tab. That works just fine. But, when I highlight code and shift + tab to go back 4 spaces, it only goes back one so I have to press shift + tab four times for every level. This happens even when Eclipse is set to use tabs instead of spaces.

Please help.

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Re: Tab and Shift + Tab [message #667498 is a reply to message #667317]

Fri, 29 April 2011 08:03

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In case anyone else is ripping their hair out over this annoying thing, upon fresh install my Eclipse had set the default indent size to 1 space in three different locations. Apparently the global settings are overridden by any ones you find in language specific settings.

Indentation size can be located at least here in preferences:

General > Editors > Text Editors
XML > XML Files > Editor
Java > Code Style > Formatter > (Change a profile)

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