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Juergen Hasch edited this page Sep 23, 2015 · 2 revisions

Removed extension

This extension is no longer necessary so it has been removed on pull request 185.

You can see the last version of the code there if you are interested in the internals of how it was working.

Shift tab

The dedent hotkey for the IPython notebook is Ctrl-]. Unfortunately, for non-US keyboards it is difficult or even impossible to generate this key combination.

Therefore, the shift-tab extension allows using Shift-tab keys for dedent operation.

Installation

Follow the installation instructions appropriate to your IPython version as explained on the main wiki home pages:

Internals

The extension registers Shift-tab to the IPython keyboard_manager and calls the indentLess command in codemirror when shift-tab is pressed. Be aware, this overrides the configuration to show docstrings when pressing shift-tab. Your choice...

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