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Nifty editing tip
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11/07/2002 12:02:24
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00677532
Message ID:
00677582
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>Found entirely by misteak while editing some code with MODI COMM:
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>Mundane: Block/highlight a word or phrase in the VFP editor, then press the tab key: the highlighted text is replaced with a tab, as expected.
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>Nifty: Block/highlight one or more lines in the VFP editor, then press the tab key: the highlighted text is indented. Bonus: press the Shift-Tab (backtab): the highlighted text is unindented. Faster and easier than right-clicking and choosing indent or unindent from the pop-up menu.
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>Works in VFP7 and 6; I don't have access to any earlier version to try.
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>Happy editing!

It doesn't work in VFP 3. If I remember correctly, this feature was introduced in VFP 5.

This works in MS-Word too, in Outline mode (which I use to have a hierarchical "to-do" list). Tab or Shift-Tab will change the heading level.

Hilmar.
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