How do I indent multiple lines at once in Notepad++?

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cdeszaq picture cdeszaq · Sep 21, 2009 · Viewed 142.4k times · Source

In many text editors that are aimed at programmers, if the user has a selection that spans more than 1 line and presses the TAB key, those lines are indented by 1 TAB (or a number of spaces, depending on how the editor is configured).

However, this does not seem to be the default behavior of Notepad++. Is there a way I can do this in Notepad++, or is there a plugin that I can get to allow me to do this?

Edit: Upon additional testing, SHIFT-TAB correctly un-indents the lines as expected, but only a tab simply inserts a tab wherever the carat is. This is in version 5.4.5 Unicode

Answer

cdeszaq picture cdeszaq · Sep 21, 2009

The problem was with the QuickText plugin. After removing it, indent worked as normal.

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