Unindenting?

[jcpetitto]

I was wondering if there is an "unindent" feature in the Positron IDE?

It is possible that I am staring at it without seeing it.
The functionality I am thinking of exists in Spyder (maybe in RStudio, but I don't remember ever using it in RStudio) and would be FANTASTIC to have in Positron. I'd even be happy if the "reset indent", which is an option that I found in the issues, worked for me. When I highlight a bunch of indented lines and use the hotkey or command palette option to do so, nothing happens.

Am I missing something?

It's a bit of a pain to un-indent by hand if I move a function out of a class in python, for example.

That said... Loving this IDE. It came at the perfect time, as I am working on a project that uses Python for some tasks and R for others, and has really helped reduce my frustration level.

[juliasilge]

Thank you for trying out Positron! 🙌

This kind of gesture is called "outdent" in VS Code and Positron. To use it, you can select a bunch of indented lines and use Shift+Tab, or you can find "outdent" in the command palette as well and run from there if you prefer. You can "indent" also from the command palette or with Tab, for whole sets of selected lines.

Is that the kind of thing you are trying to do?

[jcpetitto]

Oh my goodness! I would have never thought to use that term, and wouldn't have found the solution on my own. Thank you! That's exactly what I needed. I had a feeling it was right there in front of me. I appreciate it!

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[juliasilge]

I had not heard that term before either! 😆

Since Positron is built on top of Code OSS, I will often get unstuck with questions like this by searching for how to do something in VS Code. This works well for all the features we just inherit, like settings, commands, using the editor, etc. It of course will not work for Positron-specific features (what we have added) like the console, the pane for plots, the variables pane, Positron Assistant, and so forth.